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To: GST who wrote (42107)	2/24/1999 9:23:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Less than a year ago, Gary Swancey was riding high on the online stock-trading wave. Under the moniker Ga Bard (he comes from Georgia and writes poetry), Mr. Swancey had hundreds of people following his Internet stock postings. The 46-year-old former heating and air-conditioning contractor says he had at one point turned a $20,000 stake into some $500,000 worth of securities. He even did a stint of investor-relations work for a small company called Midland Inc. interactive.wsj.com