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To: JayPC who wrote (35406)	12/14/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: TARADO96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

<<Welcome aboard shorts...long time no see...the doomsayers get louder, and the AOL community keeps growing...see you all at the next split! Good luck!>> Jay, It is my opinion that this summer we will have a major shake out in the internet sector. I think the market is losing patience with companies that can not deliver profits. Without getting major advertising revenues and lucrative multimillion dollar partnerships, how does ATHM plan to pay for their alleged free dial up service? We have seeing the demise of free computers with prepaid ISP subscriptions (e.g. Microwitz and Free PC). To me, the free ISP model will go the same way. Good luck to you. John

To: JayPC who wrote (35406)	12/14/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: david	Respond to of 41369

yahoo may be a potential threat for aol by luring people from it. however, comparing with aol's giant and broad media service set-up now, yahoo is still not that perfect. this is not to say that it can't be. with yahoo's brand name, as long as it can develop comparable service(note they just need to develop the service but not its name), it could threat aol more than any others. this is only reason that I see yahoo's buz model is superior to aol's and is where my worry goes, considering yahoo never think about charging fee for its media service. the question is: to what extent people think yahoo can serve as a substitute of aol? d.