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To: Jon C who wrote (1425)	6/22/1999 4:11:00 PM
From: Jacalyn Deaner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3519

Jonathan Capper, does this excerpt look familiar: .... postings are repetitive and tedious. We are all consenting adults on this board and do not require regurgitated crap. Regards Jon C We already had those names and Sukornyk, Manning & Carvahlo are the "operatives" (ie: CEO's) in this xstream. As a matter of fact Carvahlo is the Secretary of Ops. But this has all been posted before and is just more regurgitated crap to put it in your terms. Hey, hey, no need to get upset and posting all over your island what you think about me; I have read them all you know. Keep it up and you'll have to use your "real estate" money for blood pressure pills. :) Relax and enjoy the security of your holdings for the next two weeks... Are there any PRs over there on that side of the pond? Nothing about the Lehmans meeting, huh? What are the Sukornyks' plans for nethead and GOD, same issue as xstream or separate IPOs? Will they be offered on the US exchange or foreign exchange. How are the financials doing - with all those millions of dollars in expenditures, where is the money coming from to pay - did you see the bulletin boards griping about all those problems over the weekend with the "free" connections? Has Manning offered up a news release or explanation? Ever find out who are the advertisers and what has xstream done about the software lots of people are using to "block" out those ads - rather makes advertisers not want to pay for things that they cannot be 100% or even 50% sure their ads will be seen, huh? You see Jonathan Capper, you are quite correct with the "regurgitated crap" - what is needed now is current fiscal and audited statements to make this issue worthy. I apologize for this post, but I do have my 10 shares to look after and you are so close to the source, seems you could have at least called Mr. Manning to see at the very least, how he liked your email discussing the option to ride the coattails of Freeserve IPO press. :) as ever, Jacalyn

To: Jon C who wrote (1425)	6/23/1999 1:47:00 AM
From: Jeffrey D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3519

More Netex. I wonder whatever happened to them? Seems they dropped out of sight at the end of 1996. Wasn't their Internet Transphone product strikingly similar to Camelot's Digiphone? Jeff << Calling all Internet users -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Business has yet to log on to the Net's telephone potential Ever since Israeli engineers discovered that the Internet could be used to transmit voice signals, it has been possible to make long distance (including international) phone calls at a tiny cost - typically the price of a local call. Admittedly there are drawbacks. Both parties have to be sitting at their personal computers, sound quality is poor, users have to speak into a microphone and the speaker's voice comes booming out of computer loudspeakers - hardly appropriate for private calls or for a busy office. But has the technology a future, particularly in business? So far, commercial users seem unexcited. Barclays Bank (no slouch when it comes to exploiting IT) has 'plenty of more pressing areas to pursue', according to corporate IT spokesman Davis Scott. Cost savings are important, Scott agrees, but Internet telephony is really not regarded as a likely source. Nor does British Telecommunications appear to be alarmed. While over at OFTEL, 'We're merely monitoring the situation,' says spokesperson Catherine Guiver. Lees of Microsoft: optimistic Peter Bertie, BT's Internet services manager, argues that Internet telephony 'is an extremely inefficient way of using expensive bandwidth'. Because an Internet service provider and a cut-price telephone call reseller are charged exactly the same amount to lease a long-distance cable, this inefficiency is crucial. With Internet telephony, Berrie points out, technical factors prevent bandwidth utilisation exceeding 61%. Ultimately, he claims, the market will ensure price equality. However, software (and hardware) companies are investing heavily in the idea. So far over a dozen companies - including IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Netscape - have launched Internet telephony software programs, generally as part of a Net browser program. 'Businesses haven't yet woken up to the potential of Internet telephony,' argues Intel's Internet communications manager Steve Roberts. 'They're thinking of it as a substitute for the office telephone, not as an additional channel of communication.' Companies will begin using Internet telephony for conferencing, Roberts predicts, then as an extension to their Web sites. 'A company's Web site could have an icon that customers click on in order to talk to a sales agent about a product they are interested in, for instance - and close the deal there and then.' As is usual these days, Intel's Internet telephony program-is available free, and can be downloaded from the company's Web site. Microsoft is offering free Internet telephony software as part of its much-hyped Web browser Explorer. Its UK director of desktop and Internet applications, Andrew Lees, emphasises the point that Internet telephone calls don't have to be one-to-one, nor does communication have to be restricted to voice. 'We're expecting businesses to start to use Internet telephony as a way of sharing and discussing business data held on people's personal computers.' Lees points to a utility called NetMeeting (bundled with Explorer) which allows users to hold 'virtual meetings' using Internet telephony. Voice communication is at present only one-to-one, although up to six people can type in comments and draw diagrams on a shared 'whiteboard' which appears on all six computers simultaneously. 'Ultimately every computer on the planet will be on the Internet,'says Lees. 'Internet telephony will not just be cheaper, it will be more convenient.' Yet another company, Netex, is about to launch an Internet telephone handset, with circuitry especially tuned for digitised sound and computer soundcards. 'Once businesses have caught on to the potential, we see a big future for Internet telephony,' insists its development manager, Eddie Crawford. If he's correct, it will not be the first time businesses have been wrong-footed by the Internet's extraordinary growth. Internet telephony may have its limitations, but businesses might be wise not to hang up on it just yet. Copyright Haymarket Publishing LTD. Oct 1996 >>