I doubt there are any insiders, but I do know that Ragingbull kicked me and Imakemoney(rob) off their site for picking apart their software a couple times. He made them reactivate his account, I couldn't care less as I wasn't spending as much time playing stockticker as he was so that site was just good sport for me back then. All the people who had harassed us for many months got laid off from Lycos, some of them deserved it, most did not.
The ref# gives the spamming away really easy, but I'm sure a creative person could figure out methods to easily rack up a thousand points or two if they were to put some time into it. Joemonkey said he was going to buy some kind of spam email list, ha ha ha. That would probably work for him, we'll see if he follows through with only 2 weeks to go.
JR