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

To: Rob Rob who wrote (7260)	2/9/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

To All: We lurched above the convertible price today. What would be the effect of some of those folks holding converting their debt? Think there are folks out there who were silly enough to hop on the train today. What are the mechanics of the conversion -- can it be done in one day?

To: Rob Rob who wrote (7260)	2/9/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: John Fedak	Respond to of 13594

I've been using AOL for about 4 years now, but I will probably let my subscription lapse at the end of the year. I find myself referencing the custom AOL content less and less and using it as a generic ISP more and more. As an ISP, AOL has some -serious- shortcomings: Crappy throughput, the worst mail reader I've ever used, the "Do you want to stay online" prompt, etc. I see AOL as being in a similar position as Apple was a few years ago: they are trying to compete by providing a "value added" service that is being slowly turned into a low margin commodity. Bought some puts today, the bubble's got to burst sometime...