Investor Village signs up AMD Yahoo refugees

Hello

I just wanted to contact you to commend you on your quick reply to the letter our fellow "Plantlife424", Tony, sent you, and to provide a bit of extra information and background on these news.

Just like "plant" (Tony) says, our community has been successful at deciphering the evolution of not only the stock price of AMD, but also Intel, Dell, and other related companies. We were able to do that because making use of the possibilities of the internet we managed to create a community that produced synergy of our individual skills. Our community members, that were already successful investors from all walks of life, leveraged the communication possibilities offered by message boards to eventually create this synergy of information and interpretation.

The purpose of Yahoo at offering free of charge this service of message boards, couldn't have been anything but to facilitate what we ourselves eventually created. Nevertheless, what was facilitated eventually became disencouraged by Yahoo itself through the imposition of a new graphical format and user interface that were an involution regarding our needs. Thus, we "moved" to another Yahoo message board that still operated in the old format the 17 of July. You may appreciate following this link, that immediately after Jul 17 that message board had a stream of messages that ended up with the impressive number of 14,350 messages at Saturday Sept. 9, less than two months afterward, when Yahoo virtually destroyed our refuge by not only imposing the dreaded new format, but also breaking all the URLs that pointed to discussion threads we were participating, rendering all of our bookmarks inoperative.

I hope that eventually someone will document this effort, because there are many projects that began with simple messages in a message board and went on to conquer the entire world such as the Linux operating system, and I guess that the audience of "The Inquirer" would find interesting that a Search company such as Yahoo, couldn't provide a half-decent service (because it also had brownouts and blackouts in the months previous to the imposition of the new format), and a company that supposedly cares about its users could have imposed these changes despite nearly unanimous rejection; and I hope also the funny aspect of a wandering nomad group of message boarders trying to find a place to keep their debates.

Our community is so very well organized, and so spontaneous, that in the matter of minutes we were already installed in the Investor Village site.

On which about two hundred of the regulars of our community have already said "present" by this Sunday's afternoon. We received with joy your offering to run this on "The Inquirer". µ

[Sheesh. AMD long and short investors usually curse us. Ed.]