From: owner-canslim-digest@lists.xmission.com (canslim-digest) To: canslim-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: canslim-digest V2 #607 Reply-To: canslim Sender: owner-canslim-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-canslim-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-No-Archive: yes canslim-digest Thursday, May 20 1999 Volume 02 : Number 607 In this issue: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Re: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Re: [CANSLIM] Re: Internet Freedom Alert HOAX Re: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Fwd: [CANSLIM] DSP, et al [CANSLIM] DSP News Re: [CANSLIM] DSP News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:48:14 -0700 From: Dan Cash Subject: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Published Wednesday, May 5, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News Warning: Virus strikes e-mail BY BOB HIRSCHFELD A new computer virus is spreading throughout the Internet, and it is far more insidious than last week's Chernobyl menace. Named Strunkenwhite, after the authors of a classic guide to good writing, it returns e-mail messages that have grammatical or spelling errors. It is deadly accurate in its detection abilities, unlike the spell-checkers that come with word processing programs. The virus is causing something akin to panic throughout corporate America, which has become used to the typos, misspellings, missing words and mangled syntax so acceptable in cyberspace. The CEO of LoseItAll.com, an Internet startup, said the virus has rendered him helpless. ``Each time I tried to send one particular e-mail this morning, I got back this error message: 'Your dependent clause preceding your independent clause must be set off by commas, but one must not precede the conjunction.' I threw my laptop across the room.'' A top executive at a telecommunications and long-distance company, 10-10-10-10-10-10-123, said: ``This morning, the same e-mail kept coming back to me with a pesky notation claiming I needed to use a pronoun's possessive case before a gerund. With the number of e-mails I crank out each day, who has time for proper grammar? What is a gerund, anyway?'' A broker at Begg, Barow and Steel speculated that the hacker who created Strunkenwhite was a ``disgruntled English major who couldn't make it on a trading floor. When you're buying and selling on margin, I don't think it's anybody's business if I write that `i meetinged through the morning, then cinched the deal on the cel phone while bareling down the xway.' '' If Strunkenwhite makes e-mailing impossible, it could mean the end to a communication revolution once hailed as a significant time-saver. A study of 1,254 office workers in Leonia, N.J., found that e-mail increased employees' productivity by 1.8 hours a day because they took less time to formulate their thoughts. (The same study also found that they lost 2.2 hours of productivity because they were e-mailing so many jokes to their relatives and stockbrokers.) Strunkenwhite is particularly difficult to detect because it doesn't come as an e-mail attachment. Instead, it is disguised within the text of an e-mail titled ``Congratulations on your pay raise.'' The message asks the recipient to ``click here to find out about how your raise effects your pension.'' The use of ``effects'' rather than the grammatically correct ``affects'' appears to be an inside joke from Strunkenwhite's mischievous creator. The virus has left government e-mail systems in disarray. Officials at the Office of Management and Budget can no longer transmit electronic versions of federal regulations because their highly technical language seems to run afoul of Strunkenwhite's dictum that ``vigorous writing is concise.'' The White House speechwriting office reported that it had received the same message, along with a caution to avoid phrases such as ``the truth is ...'' and ``in fact ...'' Meanwhile, bookstores and online booksellers reported a surge in orders for Strunk and White's ``The Elements of Style.'' The slim book seems to be the only antidote to the virus. Bob Hirschfeld enjoys receiving e-mails in plain English through his Web site, www.bobsfridge.com. He wrote this column for the Washington Post. - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 07:11:07 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robert Gammon" Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Dan, The problem I have with these e-mail 'viruses' is that there is an unstated presumption. In order to be affected by the virus, it appears that certain pre-conditions must exist. You are using MS Outlook, or perhaps Netscape to read your mail. The computer on your desk has an Intel CPU in it, and you are running Win9x on your computer. If any one of these is true, then you have zero chance of being infected. It bothers me greatly that these presumptions are not stated in the stories. Some portion of the user community who reads this is getting unnecessarily concerned because their computer doesn't meet the preconditions. Robert - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:16:56 -0400 From: "Joe Jungbluth" Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] Re: Internet Freedom Alert HOAX Ya know, if a bill ever is introduced along these lines, it will be almost impossible to mobilize a reaction to counter it due to the proliferation of hoaxes. "Black Helicopter" time. :) Joe Jungbluth icq 35414539 - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:19:29 -0400 From: "Joe Jungbluth" Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] This virus warning just came in and it is SERIOUS! Now that's funny! Joe Jungbluth icq 35414539 - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:19:55 -0700 From: Bruce Perry Subject: Fwd: [CANSLIM] DSP, et al >Thanks to everyone who responded to my DSP note. Some really good points for CANSLIM investors - especially about those strange earnings numbers. Has IBD's computer screening program ever miscalculated a value? ;> > >I think I will continue to just watch DSP, till its volume and earnings show me something new. NYSE:DSP closed at 31 minus a teenie today. Up 2.5 from yesterday. Up at least 4 from just last week. Hope I didn't already miss the $25 breakout... Don't have my IBD with me. How are the volume numbers looking? - - Bruce - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:17:08 -0700 From: Bruce Perry Subject: [CANSLIM] DSP News I came across this news item about DSP Communications dated 5/19. =20 I know I shouldn't copy it w/o permission, but the truth is, I haven't got a= clue what it means. Anyone know what 'crossed' means? And who is Warburg= Dillon Read? - - Bruce 05/19 10:33 BLOCK TRADE - DSP Communications 200,000 at 28-1/4, up 1-1/2, crossed by Warburg Dillon Read=20 COPYRIGHT =A9 1999 REUTERS LIMITED. ALL= RIGHTS RESERVED.=20 ** Reprinted w/o permission ** - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:55:48 -0400 From: "Tom Worley" Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] DSP News Hi Bruce, A "crossed" trade is simply a large, typically a block, trade where the prices for the buyer and the seller are already negotiated outside of then current mkt prices because of the size. It is a "no risk" trade for the firm handling it (in this case Warburg, Dillon Read) as both the sellor and the buyer have already agreed on pricing. Warburg is a large firm, doing a lot of bond business with my bank among many others. Because this trade was "crossed", it indicates that Warburg was not taking it into their inventory to work out to their clients or the mkt later. Tom Worley stkguru@netside.net chat with me at ICQ # 5568838 get ICQ software at http://www.icq.com/icqhomepage.html - -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Perry To: canslim@xmission.com Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 PM Subject: [CANSLIM] DSP News I came across this news item about DSP Communications dated 5/19. I know I shouldn't copy it w/o permission, but the truth is, I haven't got a clue what it means. Anyone know what 'crossed' means? And who is Warburg Dillon Read? - - Bruce 05/19 10:33 BLOCK TRADE - DSP Communications 200,000 at 28-1/4, up 1-1/2, crossed by Warburg Dillon Read COPYRIGHT =A9 1999 REUTERS LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ** Reprinted w/o permission ** - - - - ------------------------------ End of canslim-digest V2 #607 ***************************** To unsubscribe to canslim-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe canslim-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.