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To: Paul Thomas who wrote (743)	3/13/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: Beverly M	Respond to of 2358

Haven't been able to log on at all this morning, started trying about 5:50. Anyone else? I was assigned to the new server. Bev

To: Paul Thomas who wrote (743)	3/13/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: Ed Herlihy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2358

Gee and I was just about to "check out Laura" to see if she was any better than sharon:). To be fair you better start thinking of some names on the male side for future servers..like Paul Walt or Bob..sorry guys... just couldn't resist. I just had a 6 minute blackout and I have one or 2 a day. I just don't exactly know what to say about this service. This price is unbeatable and 150 stock CPA limit with GOOD data would be OK. I am assumming that portfolio stocks do NOT count in the 150. IF they do that number should be separate and about 100 of those allowed, since there is NO tick or graphics with them. The hope that we would get OPTION CHAINS seem to have just about disappeared and if this data on options gets real, I suppose the price of the service would triple. Since I am still not a heavy and quick trader, this system is still one of the best for the price. The ideal setup, in my opinion, is about 100 real time quotes, with ticks, 100 portfolio price tracking quotes and unlimited delayed quotes with daily histories and TA. I think in the final analysis, the composite page design was a brilliant idea, but is far more than any one person can use, if they attempt to watch 300 stocks with a CPA page and the 5 data areas available on that page. If data was only "drawn down" on the CPA page that is ACTIVE, all your problems would be solved. Under that design, if you "clicked" on a CPA to make it active, the gap in the data would be retrieved gradually after you clicked on the page and then click on a stock. As I understand it now, data on all CPA pages that are "loaded" is sent even if the page is not being viewed (active) at the time. So IMHO the CPA page allowance should be reduced to 100 stocks (4 screens) for real time and be unlimited for delayed data. That in effect is what is happening when people switch back to papyrus at times to get some data on charts. For those that log on during real busy periods, the system should just not deliver any historical previous day ticks or quotes or graphs or intraday data and just concentrate on QUOTE PAGE screen only, until the system has time to shove out that lower priority data. Well, the suggestions still come flying in and they all require expensive tweaks and re-programming of the server. And yes many of these suggestion have been around for nearly 10 months. All of the free internet sites will be charging $$$ pretty soon for delayed data I suspect and the $30/mnth will seem better as time goes on. The technology lead that IT and RTIT had 6 months ago is starting to disappear, but the days of virtually free data are dwindling. Either you pay, gets ads or else get nothing. Ed

To: Paul Thomas who wrote (743)	3/13/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Steven T. Schlink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2358

Paul, Is there any hope of getting the 'history' e.g. last 5 days, back on the Minute charts? Also, The Time & Sales screen has a pull-down for the date. Currently all you can get is the current day. If we had access to previous day's T & S, at least we could validate the Daily chart manually . This assumes, of course, the data on the server is correct and the spikes are due to other causes. Wouldn't it be reasonably easy to run the past days' T & S against another data set ? Since this could be done off hours, you would have the MIPS of virtually the entire machine, or it could be done on another server. Steve

To: Paul Thomas who wrote (743)	3/14/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 2358

What's new in 1.42? Downloaded the new client from www.naq.com today but didn't find a summary of what's new/improved over the old 1.41. Care to say?