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.