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To: Jon Stept who wrote (27906)	8/5/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Free ISPs alone are definitely not a threat to AOL as some have been around (FreeI.net) and others are just entering (Brand 3 and Net Zero) some with unique models. None of these have been seen by the industry as a threat to AOL. None of these have money to advertise widely. How many people do you think have heard of these free ISPs? I'm a techie and a pretty heavy internet user but the only one of those three that I've heard of is NetZero. What kind of trust would someone have of someone they've never heard of who claims to want to give them something that they're currently paying for for free? Aren't we always warned that these sort of something-for-nothings are usually a scam? But everyone has heard of Microsoft. I set my teacher brother-in-law up with NetZero and he's really happy with it. To him 12 months * $20/month = $240/year is a lot of money. I had planned on setting my mother up with it, ditching Mindspring, but now I'll probably wait to see what happens with Microsoft. To her $240/year's a lot of money, too. People that use AOL are not accessing it as an ISP as in Free ISP service... they are paying for it because they like the ease of use and the features that are found no where else on the internet. You mean like the ease of having to follow special instructions all over the web of how to access a site if you're using AOL's specially-screwed-up version of IE?

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