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To: ahhaha who wrote (3603)	12/29/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Let me start out by saying I have had great fun reading your posts here and am not going to attempt to match you as I do not have the wit, But that said there are a few things I take issue with and others I would like further education. "It's hard to stand in front of the momentum train? Stock price has no momentum. How do you define momentum? Mass times velocity? Probably you have this popular myth in mind that a stock rising tends to continue to rise. If that was true, the public would be making tons doing simple trend analysis. Guess they have been since 1995. That must prove that stocks will forever advance at 50% per annum. Stocks turn on a dime all the time. What happened to their momentum? Oh, they didn't have any. No, it changed. Oh " It's inertia. A body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will remain in motion until affected by some outside force. AOL will continue to rise until something ocurrs that stops it. We may not hear about it until after the price has dropped significantly. Momentum is real with stocks, but it is not a forgone conclusion and unlike the physical world we don't always see what stops a stock first hand. It's usually leaked to the well healed first. "AOL will gain access to those surfers who presently subscribe to other ISPs & who use Netscape as their browser." I think what this person may have meant is AOL gains access to these surfers by way of the NSCP site, not that they will convert their ISP. Many of them start browsing at the NSCP site and while there AOL has a chance to market to them. I think the NSCP purchse has more to do with accessing more eyeballs, ie marketing, than gaining subscribers for AOL. In fact many of the eyballs AOL gains with this deal wouldn't normally be caught dead on AOL. I would appreciate a bit of education on DSL. I have been following the DSL industry for almost two years and have been dearly dissappointed. Thankfully I have not invested any money in this area. I just want MY DSL. And I understand that the telcos are afraid of cannbalizing their T1 cash cow, but isnt that short sighted? Couldn't they take a longer term view and get DSL into the home and from their beging to provide a whole slew of services from phone to internet to cable to movies on demand to who knows what that will eventually make their investment pay off. Or is DSL just dead? Feel free to point tme to other post you have made on this subject. Have fun, jb

To: ahhaha who wrote (3603)	12/30/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

ahhaha: You obviously don't read very closely. I stated that AOL gains Netscape Netcenter as an additional portal." I assume you know what a portal is. Portals capture surfing eyes. Do you Yahoo? Again, it has nothing to do with browsers; it has nothing to do with ISPs. You attempt to muddle my argument with your own BS. The majority of readers on this thread understand the argument I've made. AOL does. The market does. You don't. You are the one who is confused -- or refuse to acknowledge your own myopic view of the AOL-NSCP deal. IMHO, AOL is ahead of the pack. Let's see who follows in 1999. zdii.com