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To: limtex who wrote (4793)	3/30/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: wrm1	Respond to of 12468

Gentlemen: Their is nothing wrong with this current thread. A good deal of distraction has recently occurred mostly due to Mr. Fink, which was probably his intention. While discussions regarding free speech, and Mr. Fink are interesting, input about WCII is sometimes overlooked in the process of eliminating non telecom. / wcii input. The current information and providers of such are great. A new thread might not keep Mr. Fink from participating as he does now.

To: limtex who wrote (4793)	3/30/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

L, I really don't think you'd want an all pro WinStar thread. To me, that would be pretty worthless. Kind of like a room full of chearleaders. You need the posts that you don't like or agree with to make you think thru your own position and make sure your thoughts are logical. I try to keep my posts on subject during the week, but sometimes on the weekend go a little off topic with other articles of interest or discussions like we've had before such as the free speech issue. Along these lines, here is a post made to the Yahoo thread over the weekend: "Just a couple of months ago, it was $10/shr. Now 40 something. Wow! My boss kept telling me to buy in but I was hesistant. Well, I'm in Boston and from what I can tell, WCII sucks! We have our phone down all the time. We also keep hearing we're going to go wireless but still sitting on terrestial lines forever. Calling support at WCII and get these robots who knows next to nothing. Worse than Bell Atlantic, IHMO. Someone tell me why this company is so successful? I just don't get it." This guy wouldn't be allowed to post on your new thread, but being as far into WinStar as a lot of us here are, news like this is very welcome and needed. Still, you take any post like this with a grain of salt until you know more facts since you never know who the poster is or what his motives are. I'm not too worried because I know Paul is in Boston and his experiences with WinStar are generally good. I also figure this guy is on a leased line, and his customer service problems are probably out of WinStars hands. But it still makes WinStar look bad which shareholders should know about.