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To: Hawaii60 who wrote (26722)	7/24/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: Dave A.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

Good luck to everyone with AOL. I have 38 shares, and I am sad because I see it dropping to support at 90 or so. There goes my jet-ski. Time to phone the blood banks to see what they are paying. Many thanks to everyone who responded about my ant farm, see: daveashley.com I had posted this URL just for humor. Greg, I would be cautious about collecting ants from your yard for an ant farm. The reason is that not all species of ants do well in ant farms, it could be exciting or boring depending on the ants. Some will not dig in ant farms. The ants they send you by mail are known performing species. Dr. Zax, thank you for the suggestion about the food coloring. My ants are all deceased now (they lived about a month), but if I ever repopulate the ant farm, this is a tempting idea. I would like to know the distribution of the dirt. But this is a low-priority project :). Dave.

To: Hawaii60 who wrote (26722)	7/24/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: SteveJerseyShore	Respond to of 41369

NTOP starts trading (IPO) on Wednesday. Parent company IDTC owns 58%. Either company, way to go next week. IDTC trades @ 24 To: Ronald Ashkenazy (11911 ) From: Ronald Ashkenazy Saturday, Jul 24 1999 2:13PM ET Reply # of 12056 PC World is spreading the word: ICQ Chat to Get a Voice Net2Phone technology will add Internet calling options to AOL's ICQ. by David Essex, Special to PC World July 23, 1999, 1:34 p.m. PT The 38 million members of America Online's ICQ chat service will soon be able to make inexpensive phone calls over the Internet, thanks to a four-year agreement with Internet telephony vendor Net2Phone. But AOL is only the latest Web portal to provide "voice chat"--competitors Excite and Yahoo have offered it in a more limited way since spring. In its first phase, scheduled to launch this fall, the service will offer ICQ members an ICQ-branded phone card. The phone card will save users money on regular phone-to-phone calls by letting them dial in to Net2Phone's Internet telephony network, which can route calls more cheaply than a public phone network. AOL has not revealed pricing, but users of Net2Phone's own calling card pay 4.9 cents per minute for U.S. domestic calls, plus 99 cents monthly. ICQ also will provide software that lets PC users--even those overseas--call regular phones in the United States for as little as 10 cents per minute. (Net2Phone also offers savings on international calls.) Another service option will allow calls from phones to ICQ members' PCs. ICQ spokesperson Wendy Goldberg says members' contact information will remain private unless they give out their phone numbers, and the phone options won't be tied directly to existing chat windows. "It's not integrated with text messages, per se," Goldberg says. A fourth ICQ Internet phone product, planned for next year, will let PC users with headphones, microphones, and sound cards call each other over the Internet, Goldberg says. Again, details weren't forthcoming from AOL. But Net2Phone and rivals DeltaThree and Vocaltec typically offer such software free as an incentive to get users to try their other products, and an AOL statement says ICQ's PC-to-PC service will be free "initially." ICQ will provide a secure area where members can sign up for the services with their credit cards. Yahoo Messenger offers a PC-to-PC Voice Chat service. Excite has an identically named feature, and also provides access to AT&T's 15-cents-per-minute Chat 'n Talk for those who want to talk over the telephone without exchanging phone numbers. Sites dedicated to chat and instant messaging are also getting into the act. For example, Tribal Voice's Powwow offers a telephony menu nearly identical to the ICQ package from Net2Phone arch rival DeltaThree, including a 10-cents-per-minute card for U.S. calls.