[62185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Sep 16 16:01:48 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:48:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
To: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030916133119.A4007@roxanne.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
