To: dgivinvestor who wrote (18867 ) 7/22/1998 8:32:00 PM From: dch Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 50264
Your post yesterday bothered me sufficiently that I went ahead and called Roger Templeton to, as you suggested, "confirm." You said: >> I am working with DGIV management to prepare an upcoming article about our comany. << Roger said you had called him and informed him you had been contacted by SOTM (he wasn't sure if it was a website or newsletter) and that you were composing a response and wanted him to verify everything you chose to say would be ok. He agreed to look it over, since he is willing to help reduce the amount of misinformation disseminated about DGIV if he can. That, to me, is a far cry from what is implied by your assertion that you're "working with DGIV management to prepare an upcoming article about our company." Your phrasing made it sound like there was a collaborative effort going on between you and DGIV officers to compose an official company document with the intention of having it published via SOTM. Balderdash! I asked Roger if he knew you. Other than having seen your dgivinvestor posts on the thread and having spoken to you when you called and asked that he review what you said you were working on, his answer was "no," he didn't actually know you. He also didn't think that you "knew" Jimmy Chin--at least not in the manner implied by your post and in other earlier posts by you. He said that Jimmy is rarely taking calls from investors these days, in the interest of preventing leakage of sensitive information, or if he does take a call from an investor, he tells that investor that he can't say anything. Zip. Nada. I asked him if you were affiliated with the company in any capacity (something other than being a shareholder). He said "no." You said: >> We want to submit a unified position to their subscribers that's why I asked you not to respond individually. << When you say "we" you imply again that you are in concert with DGIV management and that they and you have come to this decision about a unified position to be presented. It seems clear to me that this is something that you have fabricated. You may have suggested that having a "unified position" would be important and/or that having accurate information presented to SOTM was in DGIV's best interest, and Roger may have, at such a suggestion, said something as benign as "sure." But you've blown such a tacit agreement way out of proportion. You're not an official representative of DGIV and you're not an official representative of the shareholders. You may want to be official. And you may truly want what's best for DGIV. But you are truly overstepping your authority and you're misrepresenting your relationship with DGIV and the facts. It's ridiculous for you to expect every DGIV shareholder to consult with you before saying anything to SOTM or any other investment entity. No one appointed you the sole, authoritative conduit of DGIV information, except you. You say: >> We don't want to send out mixed messages or things that are not completely accurate. So, again, I encourage you, if you are contacted, not to respond directly to them. << You again imply with "We" that you're speaking on behalf of DGIV management, which clearly isn't the case. I think it's ludicrous to think that any publication would contact any shareholder who is not also an employee of the company and expect to get authorized or accurate information about the company. I suspect that you in fact contacted SOTM and offered to prepare some information on DGIV. They returned your call and thereby enabled you to say they contacted you. Why else would they contact you instead of going directly to DGIV? If you have a legitimate explanation I'd sincerely like to hear it. You said: >> If you want to confirm this, contact Mr. Jim Chin or Mr. Roger Templeton directly at 310-584-0750. << I did. That was good advice. Thanks. --dch