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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carpenter who wrote (30446)	9/7/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: Grandk	Respond to of 41369

Unfortunately, you're right. I know of some young adults that have a longer list of AOL "buddies", than they have friends in the "real" world. Sad, but true. Now if only someone could lure them away to a new cyber chat realm...

To: John Carpenter who wrote (30446)	9/7/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

John, tell me that. I wanted to cancel AOL since I access the Internet all the time from my office and even my family can access the Internet via the remote secure access to my company servers. But they want "their AOL". Precisely for the chat rooms etc. etc. And what is worse, even my wife wants it because she can chat with both her sisters at the same time via AOL. She can even conduct a chat conference for her itty bitty home business that she does with a few of her friends. And guess what. It is with these dollars that AOL is laying their foundation for future revenues via e-commerce deals. So in about 2 years, if the membership fee revenue starts to dry up, it will be replaced by revenues from e-commerce transactions and advertisements.

To: John Carpenter who wrote (30446)	9/8/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Raymond Lang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

I have to agree somewhat with John. I have friends that started out with AOL and it was so easy to setup they are afraid to mess that up by having to try to hook up with a new untried ISP. For those that aren't techno-savvy its a good way to get on-line and the cost is in-line with other local ISP's.