To: Hightechhooper who wrote (13400 ) 7/2/1998 10:29:00 AM From: Jock Hutchinson Read Replies (1) | Respond to
TO ALL: A TRULY SINCERE SUGGESTION FOR ENHANCING SHAREHOLDER VALUE!Since you claim to have 75,000 shares of LSI, send me a private message with your real name and telephone number, and I will call the direct phone number of Robert Sisson who is Diana Matley's co-worker. You won't need to go through the 800 number of which you complained. I can assure you that he will return the call of a concerned shareholder with your holding size ex post haste. You can go right to the source and let LSI know of your marketing suggestions. Indeed, why pester Frank and others to write or call. You could use your leadership capabilities and use this board as a group source to essentially coordinate the composition of a group manifesto for marketing LSI stock which could be passed on to IR. Of course, LSI may need to verify your large position in the stock if they don't have it on record, just as they did with me, since I keep all of my equity holdings in "street name", but for a "deeply sincere investor such as yourself" (and persistent critic of IR who has handed out more than just a few morsels of misinformation about LSI), that should be no problem. One final word about LSI's IR department. When an analyst or institution initiates a call, she needs to go through IR to speak with any higher up executive. So you will start at the same level of entry as anyone else. Since you quite properly analogized high share price to employee happiness, I am sure that truly meaningful suggestions would be deeply appreciated. (From past experience with other companies, I can tell you that that is absolutely true). So don't let this entire thread down by failing to put together your comprehensive marketing plan to the investment community.
