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To: TARADO96 who wrote (27269)	7/28/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Sonny McWilliams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

TAR. Right you are. My daughter is very cost conscious but would never give up AOL. My grandkids just love those AOL programs and those blocking devices. Well maybe only my daughter likes the latter. All my relatives and friends, who have AOL, love it despite some shortcomings, like annoying busy signals and disconnects. AOL up over 3 at this time. My 1600 sh. of AOL love it even if they liked it better at 175. <G> I am not selling so I can wait for it to go up again. Congrats to those who bought this morning in the 90's even if AOL should go down again. Hopefully by fall we will all be happy. Sonny

To: TARADO96 who wrote (27269)	7/28/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

I asked my teenager daughter whether she knew about MSN's instant messager, she said 'of course, I knew it, but who cares? All my friends are in AIM, you can't just switch your instant messager yourself!' and she has a circle of friends counted around 100. This attitude is seen very valuable by AOL, the users of AIM or ICQ are so closely tight together, they are 'very loyal' to AOL (not their choice sometimes, just like we are using WINDOW because everyoneelse is using it). AIM and ICQ are free for anyone, you don't have to be an AOL subscriber, if YHOO, MSN, PRGY wants to use it, just download it, no charge, so why they want to 'touch' AOL's server? because using AIM or ICQ is good for their ISP members but not good for their bottom line. AOL gives AIM and ICQ away for free, what about MSFT? their window is not free. AOL is willing to pay the same as ATHM pays to ATT for using their pipes, AOL is asking for a free access of ATT's pipes and ATT wants to confuse the 'open access' issue here. AOL should keep their ICQ and AIM member database because most people who use instant messager are using AIM or ICQ, if a new software available, these software cannot get enough interest because it is 'quiet' there. If MSN or YHOO or PRGY or anyone wants to enrich their members' life they can just let them use AIM or ICQ, just like we use WINDOW, use Office products, as long as my files can be used by others, and mostly, 'others' are using window too. I trust AOL's management to make wise decision on this issue, to make a killer application also a killer money machine because most AIM or ICQ users are kids, they will grow up and become AOL member!