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To: purecntry5 who wrote (8200)	3/10/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 27307

Will do!

To: purecntry5 who wrote (8200)	3/10/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 27307

Do you remember Babbages? Same business. I made an investment several years back. It merged with another outfit Neostar Retail. Got nervous and pulled the plug for a 1/2 pt loss or something like that -- then the outfit went into bankruptcy -- don't know that it's terribly relevant to EGGS, but I couldn't put money in a retailer like that unless they were awfully beaten up.

To: purecntry5 who wrote (8200)	3/10/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Dylan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet as their are way too many messages for me to keep up now. I metioned a month or two ago that they should undercut AOL..... MCI undercuts ISPs By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet Not long after America Online raised its prices to $21.95 a month, MCI Internet, operated by long-distance provider MCI, has responded by offering monthly Net access for $14.95. The pricing strategy (which is only available to MCI long-distance customers) could be the beginning of a trend by telecommunications companies to undercut smaller ISPs, according to industry observers. MCI (MCIC) announced the move last week and has been hyping it in high-profile print and television ads for the past few days. Observers see the new pricing plan mainly as a way to get a competitive edge against MCI's long-distance competitors. But it has the side effect of undercutting regional ISPs, which usually charge about $19.95 a month. "Telecommunications behemoths, such as MCI, own their own backbones and can offer packages of low rates, consolidated billing, and national network access to their customers," said a brief by analysts at Zona Research Inc., base in Redwood City, Calif. "This offers them an unfair advantage over ISPs that lack such extensive resources."