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

To: Alec Epting who wrote (7126)	2/9/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13594

>>I get the feeling this announcement is a pre-emptive strike on AOL's part prior to disclosing poor earnings numbers.<< I have the same impression. They are putting out a smoke screen of up-beat press releases previous to the announcement, as I have mentioned in other threads, the ISP 19.95 model does not work and the commodity nature of the service makes very price competitive. MIC long distance customers can get [unlimited] service from MCI for 14.95. About the only reason I can think of for people to stay with AOL (aside from being lazy /and or rich - actually the rich people are sometimes the more price sensitive - after all, who do you think they got rich, by throwing money around?) is emailaccess. if you cancel, I imagine they will not forward any mail. Any views on this? Pancho FWIW,I am a short currently well under water but no plans of covering so you can aim and take a good shot at me, use tomatoes, eggs, real bullets, whatever you have got!