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To: purecntry5 who wrote (5674)	11/7/1997 4:35:00 PM
From: Harry Larson	Respond to of 13594

Would you buy a used car from these guys? 11/07/97 America Online Profit Hits Expectations, But New Sources of Revenue Falls Short The Wall Street Journal Steve Case, chairman and chief executive, blamed the slowdown in other revenue on two factors. AOL now classifies refunds and credits for merchandise against the other revenue category, as opposed to subscriber revenue. ********************** The company also scaled back its telemarketing efforts for products this past summer after subscribers learned that AOL was passing their phone numbers to its marketing partners, which raised privacy concerns. ********************* 07/25/97 America Online Backs Off Plan to Give Out Phone Numbers NY Times America Online executives insisted that they did not intend to "rent" the phone numbers. Instead, they said, American Online would provide the numbers to companies only as one part of an overall marketing deal. "The only calls we intended for you to receive would have been from AOL and a limited number of quality-controlled AOL partners," said Stephen Case, the company's chief executive, in a letter to subscribers Thursday. ************ "We said, 'It's so insignificant, just drop it,' " said Robert Pittman, chief executive of America Online's operating subsidiary. **************