Re: Global News Release

["Brian Courtney" <brianc@idirect.com>]

Some time ago I raised the issue of having our results out six weeks after
the quarter. Ralph West assured me that in order to be complaint with SEC
rules which we are, the availability of the results was not an issue.
Unfortunately what I didn't realize was that it would take nearly another 60
days to press release the results. As a Global shareholder I was always
annoyed with the slow public reporting. We should be press releasing these
results no more that 5 days after the six week SEC filing. I agree with
Brown's position.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie Merritt <bonnie@dieboldes.com>
To: Brian Courtney <courtney@pearlltd.com>; John W. Larmer II
<john_larmer@soza.com>; Nicholas Glass <nglass@look.ca>; <announce@dieboldes.com>
Sent: December 15, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Global News Release


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