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To: blankmind who wrote (18129)	3/16/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

- I predict AOL goes down big time - There's a free ISP; with a ton of local numbers; provided you take the ads with it. Backed by some big names. No monthly charges. One is netzero.com which I signed my brother-in-law in Tucson up with. When they get an Evansville, IN number I'll switch my mother from Mindspring to Netzero also. However, they require you to use their dialer program (which also displays the ads) and they don't support Linux as the user's desktop OS, let alone a Linux machine acting as an internet gateway for multiple Win98 machines like I have. Also, AOL is making deals with the Baby Bells to get high speed DSL access to AOL at only $40 per month instead of $40 per month plus ISP costs. This actually makes DSL competitive with cable, and considering that only about seven people in the US can actually get a cable modem (and I'm not one of them) these deals will probably suck a lot of business their way. Hell, I've been an AOL hater for ages (until I bought 50 shares on March 8 at 87-3/4) but I'll switch for that. P.S. When is SI going to fix their spell checker so that "internet" isn't flagged as a misspelled word?

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