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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (1103)	5/1/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: JustJohn	Respond to of 3795

TLC, In fact, I am new to posting. I have read the stock threads for a couple of years. Yes, I am still reading them and actually studying some of it. Your last post was, imo, excellent. Thank You. <But you also hint that the person who "understands" is, or should be, responsible for the person that does not, regardless of who they are or what they believe. And here is where we may have a difference of opinion. I did not mean that you or I or anyone else should be responsible for the person that does not have a full understanding of the market. So I would say that we agree on that. I did mean that we do have some responsibility for what we post and what we say. ( I think we agree on this point) < If your suggestion is that I, having a good knowledge of the stock market and how it works, should make decisions for you, who does not, then we disagree.> That was not my suggestion, so apparently we agree on this. John

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (1103)	5/2/1999 7:08:00 PM
From: Level Head	Respond to of 3795

Suppose I thought that one way to capture people's attention and help them learn was through the use of humor. Let's say that I wanted to help someone understand that this 15 year old kid was a numbskull, and my opinion as a sophisticated investor was that you would be much better off ignoring this kid. I could do a couple of different things. I could post on his thread and expose his bullshit. Or, I could make a joke about him, so that anyone that read the joke would be inclined to at least question him, and maybe start learning for themselves. Dear TLC, I, for one, enjoy your humor (and that of your cOUSIN, of course), and understand the target of it. You have added to my education, in a rather painless way. And with regard to the newsletter about this particular target, didn't some philosopher once say: "What doesn't de fetus, makes us stronger." Perhaps that philosopher was not germane. Level Head