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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (12552)	7/16/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: Jan Garrity Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

This is a great buying opportunoty as this is gonna fly and it will be open access as their is enuf for all!!!<<;-)))))))))))))))

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (12552)	7/16/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Portal sites turned in mixed traffic numbers last month, according to a research report. The number of U.S. residents with Internet access at home rose 4.3 percent to 105.3 million in June, according to a report by Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings. But while the overall audience rose, some Internet directories saw the number of individual users increase only slightly in June, and some had decreases. Web sites run by No. 1 online service America Online attracted 34.7 million users, a 2 percent increase, while Yahoo's number of users rose 15 percent to 29.9 million. Yahoo's June results included its acquisition of Geocities, which offers free Web pages and other services, while May's results didn't. Microsoft's MSN network of Web sites drew 22.4 million users, a 1.5 percent rise. Among other top sites, Lycos' users fell 1.4 percent to 19.1 million. Users of the Go Network, owned by Walt Disney and Infoseek, rose 1 percent to 14.8 million. Excite@Home drew 12.2 million users, an 8.1 percent decrease. Greg

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (12552)	7/17/1999 3:11:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

It's not T's front page to control, to start off with. It's ATHM's, a quasi-subsidiary... Good point, and I agree. What I was trying to say back there is that there's little sign they want to get the kind of control they don't have now. On the general issue of T's "loyalty" to ATHM, I wonder if it's worthwhile at all to think of ATHM as a kind of latter-day Western Electric. There are many differences -- including the ownership structure -- between T and Western, but I believe I see what is probably a thin common thread in the history of the relationship: For decades, the old AT&T fought valiantly to maintain its ties with Western Electric, going so far as to give up the local end of the Bell System in order to keep Western Electric. But when the business of both T itself and the manufacturing parts of it had changed enough, T and what was Western Electric (and is now Lucent) agreed to an amicable divorce, each going its separate way. Right now, ATHM seems like the kind of important subsidiary that Western Electric was in the old days (even if AT&T doesn't control it to the extent they controlled WE). It's something AT&T is willing to fight for. The open-access battle in the short run is important to both T and ATHM. For now, AT&T seems willing to fight the open access battle that is in the interest of both. But you seem to have suggested that it won't always be in the interest of T to continue on that road. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but my guess (and it's nothing more) is that AT&T has learned enough from their WE/Lucent history to divest their interest in a subsidiary when the interests of the two companies cease to compliment one another. Like I said, "a thin thread". Perhaps it's not even worth pursuing the analogy.