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To: TraderTerry who wrote (28204)	8/4/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

TraderTerry: << Yup, I am kids-free too. BTW, since you mentioned this - does AOL have some good content for kids? That could be very addictive and reason for the average Joe to continue using AOL. That and the hassles of changing his aol.com email address.>> FYI, AOL owns the internet instant message system, AIM and ICQ are free but they are also available through AOL/COMpuserve/Netcenter, families subscribe AOL/Compuserve gets them too, their kids hook to the instant message because they can 'talk' to their friends all at once. MSFT tries very hard to steal AOL's instant message customers lately in case you haven't heard. It seems to me that you are badly informed, kind of risky to play short on AOL if you don't pay attention to what happened around AOL.

To: TraderTerry who wrote (28204)	8/4/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: john douglas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

TraderTerry, AOL offers some very good content for kids. Including content pages within the AOL proprietary on-line service, instant messaging (both AOL and ICQ), and chat rooms that are supervised and always full. They are very "sticky" and I don't see free ISP's stealing market share from the family room. A free ISP is no more of a threat to AOL, than is a rabbit-eared antenna to cable TV. And last time I looked there were more homes with cable TV than with AOL so I believe AOL still has room to grow. I see AOL much higher by year end, but near term only the day-traders know (vbg). jd