Good afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen: I keep hearing about lack of morals and a breach of faith by Agoracom, and am puzzled.

When the hedgies canceled their contract with Agoracom, Agora kept the forum open at their personal expense. They also allowed 'us' to monitor it with no basic oversight, other than acting as a final referee if some of 'OUR' overseers secumbed to the power of the newly awarded Coporal stripes and became dictatorial, which some did.

At this point, as far as I am concerned, it was 'our' mutual forum, effectivly free from Agoracom's basic control. Since they no longer owed allegience nor were bing paid by Noront, I feel that they could morally and legally post a few remarks themselves, just as we do and did. In effect it became a 'public' forum and like all forums, the owner has the right to make personal remarks.

However, they showed remarkable restraint and almost never did.

The matter of the pumping by an employee is interesting, was Agoracom the only one to do this? If it was to improve Agoracom's PR status for the Exploration Company, like any other public publication does, it holds fascinatng implications, but I do question why, after all of this time, does it suddenly pop up now? The entire related investment world, and the OSC were aware of it due to it being brought out publically. Why now?

I will be following this closely as it develops. There is such a fine line being drawn that it is a delicate balancing act, and as such, the moral / legal factor is too close to be readily defined, if it exists.

Personally I do not feel betrayed, perhaps because I always look with a jaundiced eye at any posts in a public forum. Ye old DD factor. I frankly do not believe that Agoracom would be soo foolish as to think that it wouldn't be discovered sooner or later if true. I have heard that "They made / ordered me do it" before as an excuse.

I suggest that you relax and wait to see what the comission finds, to see if they even have a legal case, before judging. It is easy to bring charges, but rather difficult to prove them, 'if untrue', unless backed by a politically influential group ---Hedgies?.

Don Jose de La Mancha

p.s. Now you understand why I luv mi purty mule, sigh, people.