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To: red_dog who wrote (11853)	6/28/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: Clever Nick Name	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Actually i think this is a male/female thing. Young girls like to chat on the net and aol excels at this. Boys tend to play games. And the worst thing in the online gaming community is AOL because 1 Aoler can ruin a multiplayer game due to the enormous lag and 'surprise' disconnects aol produces. Ask some online gamers about AOL and see what they say.

To: red_dog who wrote (11853)	6/28/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

Robert, Randy... First I don't think that MSN does for kids what AOL does. AOL is like a virtual corner hangout, or a forum of the absurd, or a quite decent meeting zone, depending on how the kids adopt it. I haven't any doubts that once they get a taste of the higher speeds that they will have reservations about using 56k, but they will continue to want to communicate with the other teenetizens they've "grown up with." In other words, IMO it wont be a case where they will never look back, once having experienced the higher speeds. In my residential neighborhood cable modems doe not exist yet, not that I am aware of at least, and wireless modes are way out of the financial reach of residential users. In the meantime, the subscriber numbers for 56k AOL users continues to climb higher each day. And once the kids get "stuck" in the communal mode that AOL engenders, they would be loathed to leave it for some look-alike service that did not have the same sticky features that they are accustomed to. Just my observations, and of course, I could be wrong. Regards, Frank Coluccio