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To: andrew wu who wrote (4691)	1/23/1999 3:57:00 AM
From: andrew wu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Plus, ATHM needs to provide dial-up access for its subscribers when they are on the road. So, in this sense, ATHM could utilize ATT's existing dial-up setup. Cheers, -andrew

To: andrew wu who wrote (4691)	1/23/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Andrew; I have not figured it out, and some times I complicate things so much I confuse my self, right now I seem brain dead, my brain does that at times. But over the years I have a habit of looking under every rock, I've just seen to more fools gold than real gold, so with out taking a position on it, all I can say is it don't at this time it don't make sense to me, and has the ear marks I've learned to question. I am not saying there is any thing wrong with it just because some thing don't make sense to me does not mean it's crooked, however it is a rock I want to look under . Why would AT&T want to sell of that end ?, I must understand that first, ( like buying a used car why does the guy want to sell it other than the money ) It seems AT&T is willing to take shares as payment too. That in effect is buying a part of ATHM, using something they don't seem to want to keep, and then with them ( T ) buying excite I do wonder about the why of all this. It's just that something don't seem to fit , and damm it I want to understand it in a very logical way, as I've seen a lot of Shenanigans over the years. I'm not good at rocket science but I'm not a newbie at computing or the internet, our area don't and won't have cable for a long time, ( heck we don't even have a local number for AOL or any of the major players ) In fact 70% of the country doesn't not have local numbers for AOL , there are thousands and thousands of local independent ISPs, yet these number are missing from the mix the major news pundits, and bean counters tell people about, I have 3 ISPs myself. ( one of them is free as I get it for signing people up and hand holding some newbies until they get up to speed. ) The one I keep my page on republic.net is talking about going to wireless, which would be great for me ( depending on the cost ) which he don't seem to know yet. I think we may find in time hybrid type systems as demographics do not fit any one system as being best for every one. I think people who don't see that have not done enough home work or do not understand the internet enough to make an impression on me. In the "long run" the people who own the backbones and hubs are going to call the shots, and there are still a lot of unresolved conflicts of interest being worked out in that area but out of sight of the public. While I'm no big brain, I have run a BBS, and have some real to life internet Gurus and hackers as personal friends, and so much of what I see the news pundits saying is pure stupid to me and to list it all would take me a week or more. As I visit a lot of internet threads and don't post, I will say that the bull S*it on most of them is so deep one better wear hip boots, and I've found it a waste of time to argue points, I just want to know "why" AT&T wants to sell, and what the deal is, and my experience tells me that the bigger of the two in most deals is really calling the shots, even when it don't look that way. I guess I will have to post this on the T thread also. Jim