On July 9 chuckwil wrote: What a wonderful thing that we're willing to put our money where our mouths are. Since this test has now been done twice, I suggest some other project. And Bob seems to be a natural leader. I nominate him Secretariat/National Treasure/Presidio. How 'bout if we send him (or whomever we elect) money-- whatever we're comfortable with-- and then come to a consensus about how to spend it. I would, however, suggest that we do as we've done on this: wait till we do a pretty thorough investigation to see if we can obtain whatever information we're after without cost. With money in hand, we'll be able to expedite this thing.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I hate taking personal responsibility for other people's money. Therefore, as mentioned in an earlier post, commitments are fine, but no money should be sent to anyone until there is a consensus about how it is to be used. Furthermore, even then, make sure you know who you're dealing with. (If and when it comes to collecting money, if I'm involved, I'll be sure to make it easy for you to know how to find me and ruin my career in finance if I'm irresponsible. ) I'm still catching up on the huge volume of e-mail from the past week and haven't had time to review the various test results that have been suggested. I'll try to get to it before the end of the day, but I'm supposed to be making money for my employer. Bob Wells