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To: QuietWon who wrote (57)	3/16/1999 7:43:00 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117

NO, SI is considered a public message board, and as such is going to become policed similar to brokerage firms having a manager that is responsible for supervising the salesman under his charge. I predict many lawsuits against SI and the other online threads and eventually the NASDR and the SEC will require they be regulated, and that posters use their real names and addresses publicly. I also predict that SI is going to learn the hard way and is going to fight a battle it can't win. It would be far better for them to change their policy now, eliminate the pseudo name, and make people accountable for every word, every line they post. SI will lose every lawsuit thrown at them for providing the method for anonymous posters to wreak havok on companies, etc., without providing the mechanism to supervise it. All in the name of anonymity. That is going to become very costly for SI. SI has peaked and is now irrelevant; they just haven't realized it yet.