Mr. CLEMENT: Concretely they could put signs on the bulletin board next to the door.
Patients have been online since the bulletin board days, before social media even had a name.
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NASD's jurisdiction extends only to the marketmakers and brokers who trade the stocks on the Bulletin Board.
"You and I know the bulletin board is not prestigious, " says George Raney, China Cable's U.S. director.
In September, 41 billion shares traded on the Bulletin Board, up from 15.5 billion in September 2002.
The Bulletin Board was launched in June 1990 after Congress passed a law to clean up penny stocks.
On the bulletin board are signs announcing movie showings, free baby-sitting, arts and crafts time and even an emergency dental clinic.
Both have also shown extraordinary restraint by refusing to respond to the tauntings of some of their countrymen on the bulletin board.
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"A company can qualify for the Bulletin Board if it has no assets, no revenues and no business--provided it files regular reports, " says Bernstein.
The hope was that the Bulletin Board would improve transparency and prevent rampant fraud among over-the-counter equities then trading only in the Pink Sheets.
The Nasdaq, charged by the SEC with operating the Bulletin Board, gets no listing fees from the companies there, as it does from its own listers.
"The Bulletin Board sounds like it's more of an institution than it really is, " says veteran micro-cap investor James Mitchell of Costa Mesa, California-based Mitchell Partners.
The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.
If you just have to have a set of Pings or Titleist or Callaways, watch eBay, Craigslist and the bulletin board at your local course for used clubs for sale.
"There are problems everywhere, but the Bulletin Board is the place they really fester, " says Hartley Bernstein, a lawyer who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in 1999 (sentenced to probation).
Although you certainly can find good Bulletin Board stocks, such as upscale retailer Barneys New York and watchmaker Bulova (see table, below), be warned that venturing onto the Bulletin Board requires immense due diligence.
Cryptome links to a forum thread on the bulletin board site Reddit in which an anonymous poster with the handle DallasK describes his experience volunteering for Vigilant, which consisted largely of weekly online chats.
Many companies on the Bulletin Board are there after having been bounced from the major exchanges for failing to meet listing requirements: for falling below minimum market capitalization or for neglecting to mail out proxies.
Three years later its largest shareholder, Voyager Group, notified the SEC that CTC, which had been delisted from the bulletin board, had failed to provide current financial information and that it had removed its Chinese directors.
The faeries vanished before his eye could even register them, but the cheese stayed behind, stacked in sandwiches on the dresser and the windowsill, wedged in the light fixtures and stuck to the bulletin board with pins, piled in the sink and scattered on the floor.
In fairness, Nasdaq did try to bring order to the freewheeling Bulletin Board--and has taken a pratfall, recently scrapping the plan for the so-called Bulletin Board exchange.
This might include, for example, decorations for the school bulletin board, pizza for the traveling chess club and sheet music for the band.
Better not to give your opponent the proverbial bulletin board material that could provide the additional motivation needed to win ultra competitive contests.
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Stocks in the Over-The-Counter market are quoted on systems like the OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic quotation system, and the Pink Sheets, which is not registered as a stock exchange and is named for the color of paper on which its listings of price quotes for companies have historically been printed.
This gem, however, traded in a nether region of the investing world called the OTC Bulletin Board, a newly popular electronic service that links marketmakers in the shares of small companies.
Not to worry: It now trades on the Nasdaq bulletin board, thanks to an old tactic of penny-stock operators--the reverse merger.
Someone recently forwarded to me an ad that was posted on the electronic bulletin board for parents at a prestigious private school in Manhattan.
But the SEC alleges this Bulletin Board denizen pumped the market with a fraudulent promotional campaign between 1999 and 2000.
Hordes of penny-stock hustlers have headed south to the American Stock Exchange, the o-t-c bulletin board and the Pink Sheets since the Vancouver Stock Exchange disappeared in 1999.
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