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Looks like things are definately worse than we assumed.  Can someone
form Best please comment on this post, and explain the reason for the
dismissal of Schaft and Schwartz?

Rather good timing that they did this on a Friday, so no-one from Best
will be expected to be around until Monday to respond.  Maybe a couple
people in the area could go to the store front and demand some answers
since I doubt we'll get any here.

In article <stevens-2701960011450001@bikiebob.vip.best.com>
stevens@veloworks.com (Steven L. Sheffield) writes:

> >Path: shellx.best.com!usenet
> >From: John Kaufman <jkaufman@best.com>
> >Newsgroups: ba.internet
> >Subject: BEST INTERNET COMM. SENIOR STAFFERS FIRED
> >Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:30:18 -0800
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> >TWO TOP STAFFERS FIRED AT BEST INTERNET 
> >COMMUNICATIONS INC.
> >
> >Mountain View, Calif., Jan. 26, 1996 -- Two popular top-level staff
> >members of Best Internet Communications Inc. of Mountain View were
> >fired today, according to a source familiar with the situation. It
> >was reported that the staffers, George Schaft, former Director of
> >Customer Satisfaction, and Mike Schwartz, Best's former acting CEO
> >before the arrival of the company's new CEO, Alan Mutter, were
> >fired for being at loggerheads with Mutter over the direction of
> >the ISP. A terse announcement of the departure of Schaft was posted
> >to a Best newsgroup at 8:00 p.m.  this evening. Schartz made his
> >own announcement at 2:00 p.m. today.
> >
> >Mutter was named Best Internet's CEO last week to prepare the
> >company for a public offering. According to his resume, he has no
> >technical experience and has never operated an internet service
> >provider.
> >
> >Mutter refused to return phone calls and email today asking for his
> >explanation of the employee firings, but the source said the CEO
> >was "trying to lay low until the situation blows over."
> >
> >Response from subscribers has been strong and swift. "Is this the
> >beginning of the end?"  one customer asked. "We deserve an
> >explanation," demanded another. "Shit," observed someone else. All
> >of the posts to Best newsgroups expressed disapproval of the
> >firings, and some pointed to Mutter as the bete noire. Both
> >staffers were among the most liked and trusted by Best subscribers.
> >
> >Angered by the firings, one subscriber posted a demand for Mutter
> >to provide an explanation for the firings, but the post appeared to
> >be canceled without consent from the poster and never appeared in
> >the newsgroup.
> >
> >"To subscribe to Best right now would be a huge mistake," according
> >to one subscriber reached by email. "They definitely have serious
> >work to do before their house is in order. My opinion is that
> >Mutter should leave," she said.
> >
> >Best Internet currently is in the midst of a major advertising
> >campaign.

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