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You must have mis-read the message. I was not attacking Mr. Moose – the crack about his special treatment (fictitious name allowed) was an allusion to how the old medicine show psychology is still at work in the electronic age – we tend to give the guy with the "magic" all kinds of breaks no one else gets. This is not an attack on the man with the "magic" – it is an amusing (to me) observation of how the mesmerised crowd "makes allowances". The other point you completly missed is probably one that most westerners will never get. Newton understood the principle in physics. Vedic seers and other astute observers of human nature understood it in psychic terms: the harder you push from the right, the more resitance you get from the left. So here we have NewTek (through the good offices of the Moose) pushing so very hard on the late (pun intended) great toaster, and people like Mr Forcade pushing right back with the anger of betrayal. Now, apparently they don't allow pets in the board room at NewTek, otherwise Mr. Moose would not have made the statement about "no press releases or advertisments…" as he would have known about the ads that say, "If you wnat a Toaster then get your bread ready…" and the back-to-back articles on the Toaster, one by Tim Jenison (Mr. Moose MUST know him, right?) in AVID, the Amiga Video Journal. So I've not actually attacked the Moose (I deplore hunting – its horribly inhumane and unsporting). I may have teased a little. But that is because there is this technically savvy quadruped trying to dance to the toaster tune in the marketdroid arena. The effect is not necessarily a postive one for him, NewTek or the Toaster. Let me be blunt. CBM does not discuss 1.4, ECS, the 3000 etc etc for just this reason: premature discussion INEVITABLY leads to some frustration/disallusionment in the prospective market. Therefore it is best to say nothing until the day the product hits the streets. Virtuall every company does business this way. SoftLogik did not. Look at the mess they