Pupp, Thanks for putting my mind to rest and you are right about the E-mail you sent me. As a result of XLPI, Bruces', your and Bill's common sense approach as well as most of the others here, I will become a paying board member over the weekend.
I just wanted to let you and Bruce know you have eliminated a very great fear I had with XLPI. That was the expectations of investors to start with the "hounding" of yourself, Bruce, Bill and other board members overall, about PRs, "When is the next one, what will it contain and if I don't get an anwer I will start bashing, mainly in very sublime ways, the stock." It has been my experience with the last PK I was in (which I took all of the money out of and parked for the long term in XLPI,) that folks such as the ones who play the "it's all about PRs game," are in fact day traders, flippers and sometimes, fronts for or actual MMs, IMO.
This caused the inexperienced CEO of the previous company, who was "old school," to release some very "fluffy" and meaningless PRs which eventually were proven wrong or unattainable in the timeframe he used. This negitivly effected and may have destroyed a companys chances for expansion or at least slowed the growth dramatically. If investors know that there is much going on behind the scenes that we as investors "don't have a need to know" because competition or others trying to gain from mistakes made due to pressure from the investors and continue to apply that pressure, there is, IMO, a good chance the focus will shift from the meaningful to the PR game, if we let it.
XLPI in my opinion, doesn't need the investors money who put that kind of pressure on a company's management because they are probably looking for the fast buck and could care less about distracting managment from keeping their eye on the ball.
When the rest of the "longs" see this type of posting remember it is probably from an investor who is not going to be around for long and is just as happy to make a quick "fist full of dollars" and leave. We and XLPI don't need that. It will be uop to us to ignore them and allow the moderator to address them. I feel we have a good moderator here.
Thanks for putting my mind to rest and lets all realise that building a company in most instances, is going to be more dependant on long, solid and loyal investors. Just my opinion and will read the board tonight or over the weekend. Nez
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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