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

[David B Harris <david () eelf ddts net>]

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

Please take heart in the fact that the performance of IT stocks these
days is not in any way a reflection of the company in question. That
stock performance became meaningless during the dot-com bubble and
to this day it remains impossible to draw any sort of substantive
conclusion based on it.

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