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To: Eski who wrote (35718)	12/21/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

No kidding...let the idiots sell off...think the rest of us have been blind over the last couple of months, seeing AOL ink deal after deal? Gotta love it!

To: Eski who wrote (35718)	12/21/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: david	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

I have been hearing 'once blu blu dies, AOL should blu blu' for all this year. the question is why there are so many 'blu blu' around AOL? As a result of this, AOL would not blu blu ever because the 'blu blu' around it is endless! what a crap!! On the other hand, looking for tommorrow's direction of AOL based on afterhours INCA trades has proved not to be reliable. I noticed that in the past week, AOL was always trading up( a point or even two) after hour, yet it was still going down the next day. really frustration about aol's performance recently, esp. when I see all those non craps, like yhoo cmgi, and craps, likw jweb, are all flying crazy. d.

To: Eski who wrote (35718)	12/21/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

What we are seeing, IMHO, is a desperation game among the third and fourth tier ISPs to get enough market share to survive the shakeout. They know very well that they can not survive with their current market share, and hope that by the gimmick of giving away their service they can stay alive long enough to increase their market share and remain viable. It is a pretty good near term strategy, but they know as well as we do that it is a losing long term strategy, because ads can not pay the bills for a nationwide access network, not to mention high speed when that comes around. By that time, if they are still around and have enough subs, they hope they can then charge them for "premium" content, and become what AOL is now. Fat chance, but it is the only chance they have. The bigger ISPs, such as MSN, gave up the idea of free service, it is only the small players that are still trying anything to survive. Yes, this puts downward pressure on AOL for the time being, but in the long run, it is good and necessary, we need a good shakeout so that only the strong are left. JMHO