To: Joseph Strohsahl who wrote (594 ) 6/30/1998 6:43:00 PM From: DavidO Respond to of 738
RESPONSE TO YOUR E-MAIL Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:13:23 EDT From: <LSvikg@aol.com> To: DOSWALD3@CRIS.COM David, Thanks for communicating. In answer to your questions: 1) Effective July 1, 1998, Viking's number will be officially listed with GTE's Tampa information. It will also be published in the new phone books both white and yellow pages (closing date is July, for publication, I believe, in October). Explanation of why it has not been listed until now will be included in one of the message board posts coming up over the next few days. No big mystery - just that Dan Erickson used his own phone to handle Viking business when he started all of the restructuring over a year ago. Never had the name on the account changed. 2) Don't know when or how often you have called 813-837-2295, but believe me the phone is answered literally dozens of times every day. The problem may be that we have call waiting set up in order for one person to handle multiple calls. If you call while anyone is on the phone, you may be a call waiting or you may be the third caller at which point you will be put directly into Viking's voice mail. Sometimes it is impossible to interrupt a conversation to pick up a call waiting call. We regret that, but the caller would still go into our voice mail system and be able to leave a message. If you have left a message at any time, either Dan or I would get back to you. 3) Share buyback was started in May - details will be included in next one or two press releases scheduled for this week. 4) Details on Broad Cove in next press release probably out Wednesday. Since we anticipate this will be a lengthy release, including information about pending European acquisition as well as other items, there may be more than one release actually issued. I truly do work for Viking. And I appreciate your concern and frustration. Thank you for your patience. Linda Specht