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Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:48:43 +0300 (IDT)


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Eric Gauthier wrote:

Verisign is a business and its goal is to make money.More importantly,
its a publically traded company whose goal is to make its stock value go up.
So, if we're interested in having them listen, we should be targeting
their stock value.Right now, I really can't think of a headline that
the NY Times or CNN could run that would make ordinary people understand
what's going on and encourage them to bring pressure on Verisign.Besides, 
Verisign would obviously counter with the junk in their release.


So far up 1.7% today:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=VRSN&t=1d

Looks like they are winning.

-Hank


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