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To: Tom Swift who wrote (1980)	4/20/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: Mary Baker	Respond to of 4128

The MOST important parts of the article are reprinted below...I say stop making Danny the whipping boy...just because it feels good!!! He may have been naive and maybe irresponsible, but he is not the equivalent of a professional tout...people make their own choices and need to take responsibility for those choices! -------------------------------------------------- Quotes from the article from previous post!!! "But there's a good chance you'll be interested in blaming someone other than yourself on the inevitable day when wins turn consistently to losses. Brain-Dead For even aggressive plaintiffs' lawyers, it appears, are reticent about making a case on behalf of investors dumb enough to take the advice of an anonymous person who touts stocks of the riskiest shares around. Most of all, they say that disclosures on the pages so clearly describe the conflicts of interest ''that these investors have to be a little brain-dead to go online and do this,'' says Theodore Eppenstein, a New York lawyer. ''I almost certainly would not take a case like that,'' says Tom Grady, an otherwise aggressive advocate of investors who lose money because of questionable advice. Adds Mark Maddox, a plaintiffs' lawyer in Indianapolis, ''What they're doing is no different than if I went out and bought a lottery ticket or played a Black Jack table. I have very little sympathy for the 'investors, Best advice from Fedor: ''Don't do it in the first place.'' ---------------------------------------- Aloha, Mary