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To: Safe Cents who wrote (4428)	6/6/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: ithasnospaces	Respond to of 4767

Perhaps we can all pony up and get nospaces an escort. From the looks of it he has no social life and hangs around the board all weekend just waiting for a post so he can cut and paste. Nursery school flashbacks I suppose. The question space is do you prefer female or male? Gee, I've never considered that there were two choices. How does it work out Marcus? Nobody is happy with the current price of the stock and no one finds you even mildly amusing. I can see you now sitting back in your rented, poorly furnished studio apartment bummimg because you put your life savings into a penny stock that has yet to perform. You pegged me, right out of Dickens. Please sir, may I have another? Most of us have our hard earned money sitting in ETPI and we would like to be made profitable. Everyone here knows your constant crying doesn't help. I see no purpose to continually bashing a stock that you are long in. My purpose now it to prevent others from investing. To prevent Doug from dumping his 9mil shares at anything above zero, to warn others of this poorly run company and those who tout it. When Doug leaves, when there is an independent board, when its run like a business not a fiefdom, it will recover. You're still defending the current status quo? I guess you couldn't extort any free shares from Doug. Still think I'm Canadian eh? When all else fails, and in your case the ability to build a cogent argument, try ad hominem. As far as hiding behind a cowardly lion, anytime, anyplace. Get in the ring. Hey everyone, space tried to get me kicked off SI. I would like to hear an opinion from all fellow investors on the matter. You're too late. I advertised to all that cowardly threat about friends who can get addresses and track people down. That was you wasn't it Marcus? Indeed, I thought it important to know that you had threatened SI about getting their addresses. And this one shall go there too. But I'm still waiting for you to come after me in that blind alley from behind (like all your threats). Wasn't that how the cowardly lion perferred -- in the back? Your Servant.

To: Safe Cents who wrote (4428)	6/6/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Toby Zidle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4767

Hey, Marcus ... I had to reread your posting a second and third time before I recognized that your last four paragraphs were directed to ithasnospaces (instead of to me). The light finally came on when I realized that you weren't talking about a 'question space' (whatever that is), but you meant, "question, space," ......AHHH!!!! Anyway, Marcus, you and I have disagreed about various issues in the past and will, undoubtedly, disagree in the future, but at least we aren't driven to eviscerate each other with pointless personal attacks. Argue with my ETPI views all you want and we'll still discuss it, but once you criticize my fingerpainting skills at Montessori school, I'm not going to bother with you any more. As for ithasnospaces, I thought some of his critiques were on target. But at this point, I'll be damned if I'm going to post anything that will acknowledge and encourage 'it'. The way I picture 'it' is that he's a male, around 25 years old, with limited experience in the market. He's been enticed into bulletin board stocks (probably from all that hype on Yahoo) and found ETPI at around 25 cents. Thinking "how can a 25-cent stock get any lower; all I need is a quarter gain to double my money", he plowed his money - maybe more than he could afford - into ETPI stock. Well, he found out that the stock indeed can go lower. Deep in the hole, he is upset (understandably) and angry. He has to find a scapegoat. Doug Butcher is it - and so are we. Also, I don't picture 'it' as female. I've seen many postings from angry women and rarely is the insecurity (as evidenced by the prevalent personal attacks) so openly displayed. (Women put in a few concise obscenities and that's it.) Further, I don't think 'it' is your Canadian extortionist. A (smart) extortionist would avoid the antagonisms that characterize 'it' and would post an entirely different type of message than simple attacks on Doug Butcher's competence or on his wife being on the board. Here's something you can verify for us, Marcus. My understanding is that Doug's wife has been on the board ever since the reverse merger that make ETPI a publicly traded company. Is this correct? If it is, then all of ithasnospaces's rantings and ravings are simply a manifestation of his not having done his due diligence before investing in the company. If 'it' is correct, then the subject of a potential conflict of interest is a legitimate topic for discussion on this board. If 'it' simply neglected his due diligence, then I have no sympathy. My own feeling is that with the number of shares that both Butchers control, the issue is moot and anyone who can't accept it has no recourse but to sell his stock. Finally, on the issue of getting 'it' yanked off SI, I personally don't go to that extreme. I think a poster should be yanked only for these reasons: repeated messages with racist or other 'hate' orientation, using the SI boards to spam for personal commercial gain, or false messages of libelous intent that seek to create panic selling of a company's stock (panic buying, as well, I suppose). I don't think ithasnospaces has crossed that line. And besides, it's entertaining to see how badly a clueless soul can embarass himself.