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To: GraceZ who wrote (18157)	12/22/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: KailuaBoy	Respond to of 29970

Grace, You see why I think that patience will pay off? I'm waiting for my own @Home install. They told me the end of December it will be available. I have a DSL line at one home and will get @Home at the other. I can tell you that it is not an option for me to dial up any more. I'll give the thread the straight skinny on my install experience. Right now I'm waiting. Regards, KB

To: GraceZ who wrote (18157)	12/22/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 29970

Totally off Topic members.aol.com This is the quality I AOL has easy to find like group i guess. The delivery should be better. Many of you will be receiving gift basket to the point they are coming out the pazooka. Just in case you dont know what to do with them: leave on your desk with a note Happy Holidays to the person who keeps my office clean. Rest assured they will probably enjoy what you could possibly have to much of.

To: GraceZ who wrote (18157)	12/24/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29970

Say Grace, do you agree with this bs claim? "The mass market is not going to be willing to pay twice what they are today [for dial-up] simply to get the Internet faster," Jupiter's Wigder said. "If 1999 was about infrastructure, 2000 will be about applications," Wigder said. "These players are finally realizing that high-speed and 'always on' doesn't necessarily sell themselves, but you need to convey a compelling broadband experience." No you don't need to convey anything in particular, you just need to convey. For example, if you can log onto Yahoo, why do you need your own applications? KB and I have explored the concept of Excite providing developmental assistance to others in order to bootstrap them into good utilization of cable infrastructure. This leverages Excite's capabilities efficiently rather than applying the total effort in its own insular concepts. The strategy has various other mutually beneficial synergies. Instead what we get is the old model of non-interactive, standalone, closed, narrow mindedness. This won't do. If Excite is claiming to be the "content" division, whatever sufficiently ambiguous meaning resides in that word "content", they will need to farm out development to others who have new and innovative ways to use the speed. The way to do this is to provide a skeleton for external development and support. This hasn't even been mentioned in the CEO's office, whoever the CEO is. Ahhaha for CEO of ATHM. Guaranteed dynamic stock price performance during tenure. What I would do: 1. go see Armstrong and order him to keep his nose out of my business. Further, order Att to keep the other cable partners in line and out of my way. 2. crawl to AOL and offer them a free ride in exchange for other concessions to be negotiated. This to be done in closed session with no MSO participation. Me, Medin, and Hutchinson, and Bell will negotiate. 3. tell Bell if he expects to keep his job, he'd better start programming up a storm rather than waltzing around like some damn gladhander. 4. get Hutchinson out of prison and relegate substantially more capital into certain business DSL initiatives not covered by Northpoint's strategy. 5. make the CEO's office unavailable to Perko and friends. Stockholders have no business meddling in operations. 6. change the hippy culture at HQ. Get rid of half the airhead staff. 7. explore ways to develop stronger relations with Yahoo and MSFT. It is absolutely absurd not to be adequately exploiting these company's extensive abilities. I got the speed; they got the seed. 8. stop advertising @Home. 9. continue many of the company's current initiatives and advertise them, not the existence of @Home. 10. other strategies to get the company out of ho-hum like VOD, etc.