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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (6885)1/20/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: steve lipson  Respond to of 13594
 
You hit it on the head in your first line, popular with the general public. That's where Dines makes his living. (Certainly not on his investment results, as my previous posts should indicate.)

He rates both AOL and IOM as buys. So do the Motley Fools. Get it, there is a sizeable audience who might think that way and a good entreprenuer would have every reason to tell them how smart they are, and by the way how smart must he be to recognize how smart they are, and gee, don't they want to buy his newsletter -- or put another way, maybe all Dines is saying to potential subscribers is: "You da man. No, you da man. No, you da man, and gee, don't you want to buy my newsletter.



To: Rocky Reid who wrote (6885)1/20/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Alec Epting  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13594
 
Trouble for AOL brewing on the telco front:

nytimes.com

If Bell telcos offer ADSL ISP service, they can easily advertise their offering in the phone bill everybody gets. For the service, they can charge $30 a month and reap the benefit of owning the lines, thus having lower overhead than AOL with substantial profit margins.