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To: Joana Tides who wrote (20)	1/1/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7442

WHY AOL can't be stopped: In this world information is King, yesterday I found out why AOL may never be caught by any company. Information. Big brother knows every move you make on the internet (not just on AOL) down to the stocks you research on SI. Yup, I'm researching and if big brother wants he can take a look at my thoughts and at the same time my next stock moves in advance. I follow stocks for some time before I put the bucks down, most of us do. Until yesterday I thought my research away from AOL was private (it should be), now I know better. If you are on AOL, click on the down arrow in the web address box above (next to "go"). As you can see AOL knows what you use on SI, what quotes you pull, etc. I don't mind AOL knowing I use SI for research but I do care that they know what stocks I research. "Every move you make, every step you take"............ I'm sure AOL has a reason for why they track you online like a blood hound but the truth is they can gain insight into how people on the internet think, what competitive sites are hot, etc..... Thus AOL can sample the largest amount of people online, know what is most visited on other sites and thus provide what is hot before most know a trend is in place. We all know if something CAN be done, most times it is. From now on when I research I'll look up some dogs too (eg I want to check out DELL, I'll look up GTW and HWP too), just in case. Also the next time a porn link shows up I'll save it and look it up from time to time (AOL can think what they like). BEWARE, there are not laws in place to stop AOL or anyone from looking in your "windows". I don't see how they can ever be stopped as information is King. BLUE

To: Joana Tides who wrote (20)	1/1/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Blue, Absolutamente! Equation: Info from Mature & New Subscribers = steady income base plus trends info to attract new members Equation: All Current full and monthly-access subscribers income base PLUS - (+) "You've Got Mail" and piles of free discs even in 7-11's (+) subscriber & shopping income and info from new subscribers (+) in-house trend site info & shopping income from newbie members (+) outside of homesite popularity info of other websites (+) (a guess) subtle nudging of older web-savvy non pop-up buying and credit-card shopping members to explore the web & report back (wonder who could that be?!) (+) (in my opinion) keeping in good with Gates by keeping contract for IE (here it is January 1st, and '98 contract expired yesterday. Look at contract expiration date, they had no choice! Didn't see any changes when I signed on. Been watching for news items of browser plans, have seen nothing). (+) buy of Netscape- the independent browser that didn't provide 'em with info, plus now in bus. apps area, mondo expansion possibilities ___________________________________________________________________ = AOL Rules, More Buyouts Coming, Self-Spawns Like a %&$#! Amoeba HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? (no pun intended...) Got a feeling I left something out, though....dunno what... Joanie