While I was looking through my old e-mails to recover the ones that I sent to the Morningstar site administrators and reported on in the last few blog entries, I came across the e-mails that I sent to sign up to attend the Vanguard Diehards Conference with John Bogle in 2007. I had intended to ask Bogle questions about the cover-up of the errors in the Old School safe-withdrawal-rate studies, which I had reported on at a Motley Fool discussion board on May 13, 2002, and which have not been publicly acknowledged by the “experts” in the investing advice field until recent months. I thought that these e-mails too were worth reporting on. I did not receive a response to the question I posed in the last e-mail.
Set forth below are the texts of three e-mails: (1) the e-mail that I sent to Ed Rager on February 17, 2007; (2) the response that I received from Ed on February 18, 2007; and (3) the reply that I sent on Feburary 19, 2007.
Ed:
This is Rob Bennett (“hocus” on the boards). I’d like to make my reservation to attend Diehards VI.
I live in the area. So I do not need a hotel reservation.
My personal information is:
[….]
Please let me know what I need to do to transfer the registration fee of
$189.
Thanks for all the work you did putting this together.
Rob
If you have notified him, would you please let me know his reaction?
Rob
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