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- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: USL vs. BSDI, and what to do
- In-Reply-To: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM's message of Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:04:47 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:45:53 GMT
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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- >I hate to say this, but Bob has nothing to do with this. AT&T didn't
- >bring the law suit. USL did. USL has a different chair person, and
- >has their own lawyers (from what I've heard, they don't share lawyers...
- >so much for the "army of lawyers").
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- AT&T is a major shareholder in USL.
-
- Consider the action analogous to putting pressure on advertisers who
- sponsor some offensive TV show or whatever. In this case it's even
- more significant as USL is closely-held (i.e. not openly traded on the
- stock market.)
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- AT&T has a big vote on whether or not USL pursues the lawsuit. So do
- other large USL shareholders (who are they?)
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- --
- -Barry Shein
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