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To: fooledalot who wrote (44173)	1/19/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Helen Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

If Social Security $$$$ start flowing into the stock market, this fat overblown hog of a market will double within 2 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: fooledalot who wrote (44173)	1/19/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

IMHO I think for the 2.5 billion market cap of MSPG you could build a great AV.com ISP. I took a look at the ISPs listed in SI. I may be wrong, but if CPQ does something with ISPs, I thing it will try acquiring and combining a number of privately owned ISPs for stock, or building one. The stock values may be too high to buy one. Who owns Erols? NW

To: fooledalot who wrote (44173)	1/19/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

What do you think about this? Road Runner, an online service jointly owned by TIME WARNER INC HOLDING CO, MEDIAONE GROUP, MICROSOFT CORP and COMPAQ COMPUTER, said Tuesday it had 180,000 customers by year-end 1998. The online service said that with fourth-quarter customer demand exceeding expectations, weekly installations were averaging more than 4,000 new customers a week. Road Runner said its largest cluster of customers is in the northeastern United States, while San Diego ranks as the largest single urban Road Runner deployment, with 16,500 customers. (Reuters 09:30 AM ET 01/19/99)

To: fooledalot who wrote (44173)	1/20/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

What about a company like this. Appears to be privately owned. Owners could make a small fortune. Compaq gets a network. Of course this is just an example, and not a recommendation. If you look at this company closely, the idea it is based on may a threat to the high flying Internet stocks. Free internet access for customers with the owners making their profits from advertising just like TV. Sounds good for the consumer, but not so good for competition. Too bad there is not a local access number in my neighborhood yet. I keep checking for one. <g> netzero.net NW