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To: FR1 who wrote (27059)	7/27/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Dr. David Gleitman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

My question here is that when Michael Dell sells a portion of his position, you don't see this type of tumoil. It would have been a lot less damaging if those share could have been bled off slowly thereby causing minimal collateral damage in it's wake. Suddenly releasing 4 million shares first thing in the morning without prior announcement as a single dump when AOL (and it's shareholders) have sustained numerous recent insults to their valuation is irresponsible and acting with total disregard to sharholder sensibilities (boy does that sound fancy). That is my gripe. David

To: FR1 who wrote (27059)	7/27/1999 1:59:00 AM
From: Bert Klimer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

Are there any AOL users on this thread? I use AOL and lately the service is worse than it was when they had the shortages of dial up numbers etc... Now I don't have problem dialing in, but it seems that on a daily basis I get "bumped" from the system and have to call back. It is really frustrating when you are in the middle of writing an email or logged into a web site. Bert

To: FR1 who wrote (27059)	7/27/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Tecinvestor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

Franz, I find it hard to believe that Case dumped his shares because he got wind of the impending outcome of the open access issue in San Francisco. San Francisco basically deferred until a later date. I believe the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide the open access issue after the Circuit Court rules on the Portland determination, and that determination is taken up on appeal. I do find it significant, however, that the FCC has positioned itself against open access. The FCC will, I assume, submit a brief in opposition to open access to the Circuit Court in connection with the Portland matter. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Circuit Court reverse the Portland determination.