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To: Janice Shell who wrote (1919)	4/20/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Cindy Powell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4128

Janice, what is it YOU are not getting? You set yourself up as a basher guru and it is evident from your posts that you come on too strong with your wholesale bashing and condemnation of both posters and companies and that you have no business "critiquing" if you are not going to play fair and leave some room for some imperfections, and the unknown and the ambiguous along the way. The investment journey offers no clear cut path to follow, and is not a controlled and comfortable environment for people like you that need supreme predictability. C.D.'s might be the route for folks like you to take, cause face it, stock marketing is gambling with a slightly different twist and rationale. People learn as they go with this stuff, and are often times later haunted by the skeletons in the closets, and information that doesn't lend itself to the average investor during the course of their decision making process. In watching CNBC I see many kids at the tender age of fifteen, and sometimes younger learning the stocks and belonging to stock clubs for both the education and the hobby, and yet you expect this 15 year old kid to have a PHD in economics and 18 hours a day to dig into "due dilligence" with. You Janice, again, are not in perspective with the real world, and you are imposing some irrational and unrealistic ideas of perfection on a 15 year old kid and others as well. The key word is "intent" in my opinion. If someone is intentional lying or misleading then they might be deservant of some of your wrath, but you jump full force into these bitch slapping sessions without any reservations and conscience, and I think this is very very very wrong. Everyone is publishing an email letter these days, it is the nature of the beast again. Everyone wants some exposure and interest in the companies that they are invested in, and everyone is jumping on the email bandwagon. Dan Miller just happened to get a following because some of his investments panned out, just like TMex and others. I won't argue that because of the masses that all buy at once and all dump at once that it would seem that Dan Miller's picks are pump and dump, but investors should know the ropes before they buy stocks that are getting an unusual amount of internet or email attention. Again, that is the nature of the beast, and I doubt the SEC is going to be able to curtail that phenonmenon. They will concentrate on dishonesty with their resources, and investors will have to play the market guru stuff at their own risk. Your implications that I am not informed and that I, myself, do shoddy research and have shoddy investment skills can go straight to hell. You do not know me from Adam, and yet you jump down my throat with your accusations and judgements and condescending statements. As I said before Janice, you have some big problems with self agrandizement while belittling and condemning others. You really oughta take a look at yourself. "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself." (Credit for that tune goes to John Fogerty of Creedence.)