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To: John Chapman who wrote (2635)	5/21/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7491

John: Re: AOL / ICQ conversation continuation ... I agree about AOL. I used it when I lived in the Phoenix area, too. Hated it. From what I understand, they've corrected the busy signals, but the speed is still less than desirable. I would expect that the techies at AOL are astute enough not to mix and match the AOL / Mirabilis servers. What you said is absolutely true. If the AOL content becomes part of the ICQ web ... ugh! I personally have never used ICQ as a transfer mechanism for large files. Interesting concept, though. What in the world do you transfer that is 250MB ??? That's an entire small hard drive! I wonder if the rest of the ICQ users are impacted while that is happening? Regards, TED

To: John Chapman who wrote (2635)	5/22/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7491

Right now I can send 250mb files (that's the largest for me yet) or more through ICQ. I can not see AOL allowing that. Also, AOL has to figure out a way of making ICQ work with AOL. One of my relatives has AOL and has tried to use it and can not. I hope Catalyst allows any size file transfer. I can't see AOL being dumb enough to downgrade ICQ's service. Obviously this would annoy members. Several of my ICQ correspondents use AOL as their ISP and have no problem at all, so perhaps your relative doesn't know how to make it work properly. As for competition, in addition to MSFT, and Yahoo, there are also Netscape and Infoseek. All of these are free. According to Bill, the NSCP product is extremely good. There's also something called "People Link"; don't know if that's free or not. The point is: these are all established services, and all (except for People Link, as far as I know) have major financial backing. CSHK's a Johnny-come-lately, and is not exactly rolling in dough. And as someone--I think CatLady--said last night, who's gonna deal in upgrades to these programs, and in customer support?