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To: Melissa McAuliffe who wrote (1060)	1/4/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: Bob Zacks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

My guess is you always have the @Home site on because it's an always on system . From there you would log in to AOL.

To: Melissa McAuliffe who wrote (1060)	1/6/1998 1:38:00 AM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The Internet is in this case functionally equivalent to the telephone line, where once you are on the Internet in whatever way you use to get there, you can go to any of the hosts of the ISPs on the net which includes the content providers. This assumes the ISP have set their machines up for access through the Internet, which all that I know of have done. Each ISP has its own Internet address in the form of web sites and even login machines such as Compuserve. I use the Compuserve graphical user application through the Internet to access the normal Compuserve service instead of using a direct dial-in telephone line to the Compuserve network. You shoud be able to at least access a content provider's web site in this way. Now if the AOL user package allows connections through the Internet like the Compuserve application does, then you can log into a host at AOL through the Internet using their graphical user application that will provide you with the same type of access you have over a dial up telephone line to AOL. In order to do this, you would have to onfigure your AOL application to utilize an existing Internet connection insteaed of dialing up the AOL local access number. I am sure technical support at AOL can help you with this. For instance, access to Compuserve in this was have been available for years. The wonders of technology! Bob Graham