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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28506)	10/6/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hi Scott, One comment to your one point.... Again, I'm afraid that your "anti-NAT" emotions have got ahold of you. Most of the ISPs (including the ones that you mentioned) have recognized that "throttling" the connection (i.e. setting the size of the pipe you get) is the business they are in. How you use it is up to you. They can charge you for additional IP addresses ... but again, not the number of machines. I guess you have not read @HOME's policies. Now there I know your wrong. WHY - my buddy - just today in fact - told me that he just received his warning letter that they have identified his port to have a NAT and FTP server in use. He was told to shut it down or they will shut him down. So sorry - but @home is not as advanced and visionary to your thoughts of how an ISP should be treated as you thought. Toy

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (28506)	10/7/1999 7:50:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

DigitalMe???? Well my first experience with DigitalMe hasn't left me feeling very warm and fuzzy. I signed up for the service during the pre-beta phase, but I never received any notification about the release, etc. So I went back yesterday to register and login for the first time. Picked my DigitalMe card, added Scott and Peter to my contact list, etc. I attempted to record my login at SI but three attempts failed. I recall someone mentioning that you have to exit your existing broswer and perhaps try Netscape. But I haven't done that. Why? Before retiring last night I tried to login. One, two, three, four, five, six.....times. FAILED. All I got was that neutral "cannot connect" page. So I went to bed. This morning I tried logging in again. One, two, three, four, five, six....times. FAILED. Again, all I got was the "cannot connect" page. On one occasion I got the message that my user login ID was not recognized. I'm not going to go off the deep end with Gates et. al. on this one. But I do have a list of hundreds of people in communities, forums and lists which I manage which I'd like to steer to this service. So I will be patient on this one. I did sent an email to corporate yesterday which was somewhat critically supportive of the DigitalMe rollout. I did mention that I felt that there was evidence that DigitalMe was not being positioned in the right way - to individuals vs. corporations. Is someone reading an e-mail I targeted to one individual? Slap me everyone. Trust. Trust? Trust! Hmmmmmm.... Peace.