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To: LindyBill who wrote (21998)	4/1/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Connection Frustrations: I have been waiting 7 weeks for my DSL connection. It finally gets installed Tuesday. I have been using MSN on dial up in the meantime. I have to put up with loading their site before I can come over to SI. The number is busy so damn much that I also installed "NetZero" and find I can get on at once with them. But the ad they make you have is placed so that you cannot use your top buttons unless you resize your screen to 3/4. That is what I am doing right now. God, a couple of more years, then wireless with Q!!!

To: LindyBill who wrote (21998)	4/1/2000 10:18:00 PM
From: Mike 2.0	Respond to of 54805

LB: OT reply to your posts...Once the quality of the pictures is as good as 35mm, (and it is close!) The old camera companies will stay in business, but have no growth left. Polaroid's days are numbered much faster than point-and-shoot 35mm camera mfrs, IMHO. Every time I see one of their goofy TV ads, I crack up (their marketeers really have to wrack their brains to come up with a situation that require instant photography). Polaroid and Xerox are two dying gorillas I love 2 hate (just saw rerun of "Triumph of the Nerds" last night...man, whichever suits at XRX that threw away the Xerox PARC predecessor GUI OS should be eating out of a dumpster now! Amazing how the blunders over 20 years ago are wreaking such havoc at Xerox now (massive layoffs and cratered stock price). Death of a gorilla sure ain't purty! and re MSN busy signals...no surprise, since everybody & their brother is getting a MSN rebate when they buy a PC at the local Staples, CompUSA et al...FWIW, I have been lucky with Worldnet...used Earthlink for awhile too and liked it. Cheers Mike