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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Christopher Grace who wrote (6644)1/1/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland   of 13594
 
I beleive that an increasing number if AOL
members will find out that they can get
cheaper more reliable internet access through
local ISPs. And those that are not to worried
about saving $5 a month may tend toward
some of the other national providers like
MSN or AT&T Worldnet.

I was with AOL for awhile, but I often got busy
signals. This has only once happened to me with
AT&T Worldnet, where I am now.

AOL is a good service for the beginner--very
friendly, well policed, and the opening screen
sort of gets you started with surfing. But once
a person realizes that they really just want
usenet and the web, and loses interest in the
propriatary stuff...well then I'd think they do
the same as me--hunt for a cheaper local service
or a more reliable national isp.

Now maybe aol has fixed the access problems,
they probably have. But the trick is not to
ever lose your customers--they can spend the
entire amount they made of me in those few
months I was with them on CD roms and disk
...but It wont bring me back.

Now as far as shorting...I can find things
more expensive than aol--Microsoft leaps to
mind. But If aol runs up in January it is
going to be mighty tempting. I'll just roll
my profits from MSFT puts into AOL puts :-)
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