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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla Game Investing in the eWorld -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gdichaz who wrote (45)	9/3/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Curbstone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1817

Ref AOL: Could there be an enabling "process" for example? AOL is a nursery for clueless beginners to the online world. The reason they don't switch is because they don't know how. Most of them cannot even view a picture sent as an email attachment. In the context of the online nursery AOL is an enabling process that will continue to propagate new seedlings until hardware makes online access as simple at turning on your TV set and/or speaking to the box. As an example, read this dictate from my ISP on the signup page: Notice to current America Online Users: If you are currently with America Online, please don't bother to sign up! You have been warned... This advice will save both you and us needless frustration. We are incompatible with your computer system as altered by the AOL configuration software and You. NO REFUNDS or CREDITS will be given. As a general rule, American Online users are not computer savvy or it seems, capable of the level of technical sophistication necessary to operate a computer outside of an AOL environment. I don't know if this "enabling process" if by default or by design, but until it changes, I expect AOL, as an investment will be just fine. AM