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To: Jenna who wrote (37687)	5/1/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: jjs_ynot	Respond to of 120523

Have a look at price-to-sales ratio of AMZN and AOL vs. some other stocks in this sector. techstocks.com Also look at PCLN with a huge price-to-sales ratio of over 600.

To: Jenna who wrote (37687)	5/1/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: gladman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

When will SI implement an IGNORE function for spammers like the Prof??? I can't stand spammers, i'm mad as hell and i'm almost not going to take it anymore. Dave

To: Jenna who wrote (37687)	5/1/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: kendall harmon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Jenna, thanks for this excellent cautionary note. I think one way it can be handled is to treat a poster just like a stock. SI has some very helpful search functions now so that you can see who posts what and where and when, AND, you can see how their posts turn out after the fact. If a poster is unknown and posts and leaves that is not a good sign and I move on. If a poster only posts messages harping FOR or against a stock, that is another cautionary note. By watching what people post, you can come up with a "portfolio" of posters who know what they are doing and whose posts you can choose to study and possibly act upon. This list has more good posters, BTW, than any other SI thread. One last note: there is also an Internet "underground" where people participate in all sorts of other trading rooms and then post from there onto SI and visa versa. If you add to this all the other message boards in places like Motley Fool, RagingBull, Yahoo, etc., there are a bewildering array of ways for people to "push" stocks or positions. One cannot discern all the ways such manipulation might be occurring, but combatting the most obvious is a place to start.

To: Jenna who wrote (37687)	5/1/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: Burjis S.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 120523

Jenna this esteemed Prof got a lot of people into his other favorite stock LGND (LIGAND PHARM.)only to see the bottom fall out in spite of his hyping it and then of course he is quiet for a very long time, leaving behind a lot of people (who depended on his word) with losses. I have become very wary of those who fly around on various sites and post this crap which is based on rumor and innuendoes, so the rest of you Gemmers please be careful and as Jenna so eloquently states when taking advice on the Internet please be careful it is your money; always keeping in mind the age old saying................................ "BEWARE of BULL SHIT!!"