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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28285)	9/27/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Hmmm, looks who's investing in Akamai--- MSFT! Microsoft invests in Akamai By Mike Ricciuti Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 27, 1999, 6:50 a.m. PT update Microsoft has agreed to invest $15 million in Akamai Technologies, giving it about a 1 percent stake in the Internet start-up. yahoo.cnet.com Must mean MSFT is confident with what Akamai is doing with NOVL on caching. Now isn't that Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. =;-) biz.yahoo.com

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28285)	9/27/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

A feature like CC: or BCC: during the composition of the message would not be considered a nit as much as a basic email feature missing. The performance of the site is extremely snappy and impressive - but you are correct in that the lack of any real loads likely account for that impressive speeds. It would be real nice if the team would have a page that showed daily statistics since this service is as much a demonstration of NOVL's Internet capabilities as it is a real production service that competes with the HOTMAIL's of the world. Also, without advertising, I would like to know what NOVL's intentions are for this service long term. Are they heading toward a chargeable service (which is not a bad idea of the advertising and spamming can be assured to be removed), or is this only a pilot/demo, or is will they eventually introduce advertising (which would be a good demonstration for the ISP's of the world that might seriously consider NOVL products for production ISP work and consider ads an intregal part of their revenue stream)? Your opinions Scott... Toy