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To: ahhaha who wrote (24917)	8/24/2000 3:14:12 AM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

It's time to stop arguing the semantics of words like "content" "portal" and "competition". Its all rather foolish. When you choose to define a word differently than the commonly accepted usage you deliberately create misunderstanding and confusion. You also distract from discussion of the underlying issues. We all know what these words mean to people. "content" is anything you go to see. It can be created by the web site itself, someone they are in collaberation with or even the users. Even a list of links to other sites. Its all still content. "portals" are web sites that attempt to gather a lot of "content" and place it all under one roof. "competition" (in business) is any time two organizations fight over money from someone else. Of course @home and AOL are in competition. It is utterly absurd to think otherwise. Every day people all over this country are thinking about whether they want to spend $22 a month for dialup AOL or $40 for @home and whether they want to keep AOL for another $10 beyond that. For some the decision is obvious. For the mass majority however it is not that simple. They don't know if they really care enough about speed to pay the extra money. They don't know if there is any broadband "content" out there that is worth it either, and they would do almost anything not to lose thier e-mail address. Every day some pick @home and some choose to stay with dialup. That is competition. The fact that reducing startup fees increases subscribers is the final proof. From now on I'd suggest: 1) Discuss the quality of content rather than the word "content" 2) Discuss the survivability of the "portal" concept rather than the word "portal" 3) Discuss who is going to get the subscribers and when rather than the word "competition" Eric

To: ahhaha who wrote (24917)	8/24/2000 10:42:00 AM
From: Michaelth1	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 29970

Tell those hacks at Merriam that I'm calling them out and claiming they're frauds. This is the all-time ridiculous post / argument. Calling the dictionary definition inapplicable / incorrect. That summaries ahhaha's ridiculous nature in a nutshell. After such a ridiculous statement, it's not worth tearing apart his post for its inherant errors. Unfortunately for ahhaha and his "original thinking", we live on a planet where some uniformity is required, such as language. Perhaps he is better off living on Mars where he can pontificate to no end and not be walled in by the simple things that we have on Earth such as definitions, facts, reality, falling stock prices (particularly in ahhaha's very little corner of the world), etc. Ok, ahhaha, time for you to go and impress some freshman in class with your big words (and then drive home in your Gremlin).