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To: Richard Estes who wrote (6399)	9/7/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Respond to of 11149

Richard: I agree. Dial Data has the worst quality of any I've seen, AND they use an ASCII transfer format (at least for one of my TA programs). It takes 20 seconds to get a year's worth of OHLCV over a 28.8 modem for FIVE stocks. QP2 is much better; the only disparities I've found are when a stock trades very heavily toward the close; in those cases Yahoo, Dial Data, and QP2 might all show different close and volume statistics. RS

To: Richard Estes who wrote (6399)	9/7/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

Dial Data "advanced protocol" transfer of stock quote data to the user's PC?? And I use the word "protocol" very loosely here. Its like someone dumping the data from a file on a PC directly to the serial port using the DOS COPY command. This is error free?? Not by a long shot. My Dial Data was not "error free". Someone should tell Dial Data about using error correcting communication protocols like ZModem. They are at least a decade or more out of date here. Has this person Mr. Clark Wang who talked about Dial Data providing error free data actually know what he is talking about? Has he actually used Dial Data before for a period of time to be able to make this claim? I do not think so. His credibility has taken a hit here. Bob Graham