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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (35212)	1/27/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) of 164684

I personally think the greatest risk to netzero is that they will be copied - just as that was hotmail's greatest risk early on (undercapitalized rocketmail began service a full six months later!). We'll see if MSFT purchases netzero before it goes public too... Unfortunately for netzero there are established players who have more subscribers and might suddenly offer free service (perhaps earthlink... probably not aol). However, I think having an established business model will be a liability to the smaller players (prodigy in particular) and netzero will "eat them for lunch" if they can stay in business and offer reliable service until the end of 1999. I wonder why large consumer product merchants (Walmart, Kroger, Amazon) haven't started offering free ISPs (or even computers!)? I guess the intial costs just appear too high even with the dirt cheap pc component prices the asian crisis has brought about. I'd like some reactions if you're interested - perhaps on the netzero thread I started: Subject 25299

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