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To: robert duke who wrote (15809)	5/8/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Annette	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 41369

For a cable modem, I believe you need a phone line and the cable line... The data is only faster on the way in....the data out goes through the phone line, which is 28K(even with a 56K modem that is true)... How much of the country is actually hooked up to cable? How many have telephones? I think more have the latter, which makes DSL more feasable. DSL comes over the phone lines, but you have to be within two miles of a hub(I'm sure more hubs are going in everyday). Both cable and DSL basically "share" the lines, but cable bogs down more. These are the little tidbits we have learned when trying to get a faster hookup. We are on the edge of a DSL hub, and it may not be feasible, so we decided to go with ISDN. I think AOL is doing the right thing by ramping up DSL... Annette

To: robert duke who wrote (15809)	5/8/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: billkirn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 41369

Shorting a stock that has a PE of 239, that has a market cap greater than almost all other large companies including Ford GM AHP on and on and looks like its market growth is about to disappear or seriously contract, is a pretty good bet. If its PE starts to reflect is business prospects it might reach 30 or below, so what price do you think the stock will reach. My guess, it will reach about $30 to $40 within the next 6 to 8 months. Before AT&T and Microsoft and the cable industry decided to become un-fragmented, AOL seemed to be unstoppable, but now these big companies have reached agreement on how to take over the home market for high speed internet access. AOL will surely loose this market and consequently its future growth prospects which has driven its price. Please tell me how anyone can give it a PE higher than 15 and a price higher than $40 over the next 5 years. Bill