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To: Mooster who wrote (21096)	4/19/2000 11:10:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Why should AOL eat ATHM's lunch? AOL is mostly dial up. Nobody expects AOL-like growth in ATHM, nor do we need it. AOL is giving up hundreds of free hours, up to 500 now (it was 100 at Xmas). DocStone

To: Mooster who wrote (21096)	4/19/2000 11:13:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 29970

The problem with this strategy is that it is a ditch effort It has always been a last ditch effort, sink or swim. The most important thing is the subs growth and after that revenue growth. 1 million 1999 3 million 2000 6 million 2001 10 million 2002 If this is a reality than the company is home free. They haven't missed their subs numbers. I for one am wondering where the revs are that should follow that number, but perhaps they gave the store away in order to get the subs. This is not a bad thing, they have almost no turn over. It's pretty hard to go back to dialup after you've been @Home. I thought they should have started giving away the first month or so a long time ago. This is what suckers in people to AOL....that 100 free hours disk. I have a friend that took the 100 free hours and then tried to cancel three times, each time he tried to quit they gave him another 100 hours free. Bottom line a year later he is still on AOL.