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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Kratus who wrote (5211)	10/24/1997 10:36:00 AM
From: J.S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

"In 3 months, AOL gained 270,000 subs. In 3 months, Compuserve lost 1,235,000 subs." I don't trust these reports for accuracy in large part due to the lack of a definition for "subs". In this case, the situation is made more murky by the fact that the 5.3 to 5.4 million subs formerly attributed to CSRV included almost 2.5 million subs to NiftyServe which is almost irrelevant to the bottom line of CSRV/AOL if indeed AOL did get that contract from CSRV as part of the deal. Also CSRV has 300,000 SPRYNET subscribers. Only 1.5 million of the 5.3-5.4 were domestic online subscribers. I can't imagine that so many of them defected in three months. Who Knows, Joe