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Re: The Barkto Incident

During the Staples Merger, the FTC accepted public comments on the
merger by electronic mail.  The FTC received more than 3,000 comments. 
A majority were in support of the merger.  The FTC staff believed that
many of these were created by investors in the deal, or Staples
employees.   We were told by arbitrage investors that they were having
their staffs spend email messages all day to the FTC in support of the
merger.  

   jamie


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James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
love@cptech.org | http://www.cptech.org
202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176