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To: sepku who wrote (28819)	12/29/1997 10:47:00 AM
From: Abel Vieira	Respond to of 61433

May be good for ASND!Lucent Technologies (LU) 78 13/16 +1 3/16: story in the latest Barron's issue says that company could become a bigger player and spender in the networking market in 1998 as company will be freed to pursue acquisitions using the more favorable pooling-of-interest accounting method; according to a Morgan Stanley analyst, telecommunication equipment companies could also be on a collision course with data networking concerns as the better capitalized telecom equipment makers could be headed for an acquisition binge.....

To: sepku who wrote (28819)	12/29/1997 11:46:00 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Style, I've been following your dialog on AOL, MSN etc. and what I can't understand (educate me) is the importance you place on "content" in an ISP. Isn't that nothing more than the pre-packaged internet "guided tour" fluff that AOL and MSN in particular serve up? Why not go with a bare bones ISP and only have your own customized net "content" interactions? G. W. Coyne