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To: voop who wrote (1769)	1/6/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Brian K Crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

ok voop, I own the stock, and have AOL "Bring your own access" service level. At work I use their T-1 to access web and AOL, and at home I have Road Runner cable as my primary ISP. Won't drop the AOL for the foreseeable future because my extended family is interconnected thru the Buddy List/IM thing, and I like having a front row seat to the internet game in progress. Fat bandwidth is nice, but it only showed me where the next bottlenecks were...the servers...(like SI today...slow as molasses...) The internuts are running. And for today, life is sweet. Brian

To: voop who wrote (1769)	1/6/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: MaryinRed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

I will respond happily about my Internet usage. I was a charter member for Prodigy (back when it was a two market test)....and have used compuserve, genie, and delphi. Then began using AOL in 1994. Stopped using AOL when I discovered the regular browsers and did not like paying by the "hour"...I was racking up a serious AOL bill. and IRC was fine for chatting...search engines good for finding content. AOL ditched the "by the hour pricing" and then allows one to use an ISP to connect...and then only pay $9.95/month....so I signed back on...for a quick read on news...and some of my clients only use AOL so it is convenient for them to email me there...(they are newbies to the max!...I am thankful...they have finally figured out how to email) Well...I use @Home cable modem (networked within my home via wingate proxy...so it is cheap cheap cheap...(just $34 for 4 systems blazing fast vs 4 phone lines and 4 ISP service charges for 56K modem) Browserwise....I started with Mosiac...(remember when) the gophers, ftp, then Netscape....switched to Internet Explorer finally (at ver 4.0). Invesment wise: I am 25% MSFT, 23% AOL/NSCP, 10% DELL, then have 12 other stocks...smallest investment is $12K invested. I bought my first AOL stock in 1994...not a lot...but now....have a good bit...(am adding to my holdings by purchasing NSCP at a discount to AOL's price...) Little techie that I am....saw the beauty of Windows in 1992 and bought a round lot MSFT....and basically bought another 100 shares whenever I had extra money... that blossomed into 3000 shares...(split with hubby...so have half..now)..... Now I am a bit more diversified.....hope this answers your questions... Mary

To: voop who wrote (1769)	1/6/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: stock_bull69	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

Same experience here. I tried AOL back in 1996 and again in 1997 but decided not to go past the 30 day free trial period. I subsequently used AT&T Worldnet and presently am using Pac Bell Internet. Am long AOL for about 6 weeks and am up 80%. I can use the same analogy for WCOM. I'm in the telecommunications field and used to work for MFS which was bought by WCOM in December 1996. I only lasted 6 months working for WCOM as they didn't pay well and even now perceive their customer service as inferior. However I bought WCOM stock before leaving the company 2 years ago when it was only $24 a share. Today it's up to $78 and it's my core holding. The moral of the story is you don't have to use the stocks you are holding!

To: voop who wrote (1769)	1/6/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: Lloyd Zinn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

I connect with AOL and minimize, crank up my netscape 4.5 and and do the same thing I have done the last year on IBM.NET but cheaper. Only thing I don't have is netscape mail which I miss. Would be a simple matter for AOL to give us a choice of which mails we want to use.