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To: Glenn Norman who wrote (4945)	4/6/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Green Receipt	Respond to of 32871

whats a shill? seriously.... I didn't read the guys postings, but just because he likes one more than others that makes him bad? I happened to buy a bunch of shares in finx, idx, nrid, dbii, and afis. I have found I like dbii the best. Albeit none have done extremely well but I am still behind DBII. I talk about dbii in the idx thread and nrid thread and people talk about idx in the nrid thread. does that make us all 'shill's ? I'm not sure what you mean by shill, but I think too much policing tends to reduce 'free speech' to the point where people will be afraid to say what they want to say when they want to say it because of potential liabilities or perhaps getting booted from SI. ps: disclaimer: at the moment I only hold shares in DBII. I sold the rest. FINX went belly up, idx dropped like a rock, etc.... DBII still hasn't broken even for me. I like the technology of FINX the best (liquid platen fingerprint scanner, very effective and I have used it). DBII has the best palm scanner on the market and I have used this too, infact I developed software to import the DBII scanned data. (this is biometrics)....

To: Glenn Norman who wrote (4945)	4/6/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

Good example. Glad you quoted the actual text, since I've deleted the messages. I consider it spam even though the messages were not identical. They were all essentially the same in meaning: "I made money here, so I know what I'm doing. Buy xxxx stock." The intent was to convey the same underlying message to as many different groups of people as possible. So, definitely "spam" in intent and arguably so by definition. Actually, the "spam by definition" argument would be very strong since each and every message was boilerplate after the first sentence. Regards, SI Admin (Bob)