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To: Wizzer who wrote (1998)	1/14/1999 9:58:00 AM
From: The Osprey	Respond to of 4467

Current Status: All Stockwatch Systems Go Thu Jan 14 6:00 am WE ARE NOT RECEIVING QUOTES on our DowJones feed this morning! They are looking into it! This affects all web page quotes. You can receive Canadian quotes in the new tickers, which use a different Canadian feed! Delayed Data Our quote vendor, Dow Jones, has become overloaded since the introduction of the Euro currency at the beginning of January. Apparently the increased volume of trading in equities and options has overwhelmed their ticker plant. We are observing delays in our realtime feed of up to several minutes. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about this. Now, Dow Jones was recently bought by Bridge, so we are in the process of making a switch to the Bridge quote feed, which is higher quality and does not suffer from this problem. Adapting our software to this feed has become our highest priority, and we'll work on it round the clock until it is complete. Watch this space for updates. NOTE: This does not affect market depth quotes which are always current. Also our old CCDF Canadian feed does not suffer delays. FOR ACCURATE REALTIME CANADIAN QUOTES please read the notes on the ticker launch page.

To: Wizzer who wrote (1998)	1/14/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Re Greenline I think the real problem is that they have internal communication links to their mainframes, rather than having a completely stand-alone realtime system for trading. I also do not understand why they don't put graphs, etc on separate servers with a different link. But then again, I don't understand why they can't remove the graphic icons from order entry either. They should write a book 'bad web site design for dummies'. < g > John PS - I hope these guys are not in charge of the Y2K fix!