Re: Notes (fwd)

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, John Frangie wrote:

> Thank you all for your input. Now I am unclear if
> you if you are planning on running a Registry. 

No. At one point I did announce that I would do this but when talking to
investors I found that they all thought it was too risky. So I dropped the
idea.

>             Michael, if I may, your crystal ball seems to be fooling
> you.  A conversation with Bill Manning on this subject might stop this
> noise you are posting.

If I were in Bill Manning's position I would not say anything on the
subject to anyone, publicly or privately, for at least the next two years.

>             If you were at the meeting, you would have seen Bill
> Manning, ......

If. That's a big "if", a very big "if". Since I was not at the meeting I
can only judge the meeting based on the public announcements of the nature
of that meeting and the public notes that were posted during the few days
following the meeting.

I still believe that there is no money to be made in the registry
business. It will be a sideline to existing businesses offered as a
service to customers and not as a profitmaking venture.

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