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To: Carolyn who wrote (6182)	5/25/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Mr. Allen continues to collect his pieces in creating a full-featured portal, at least on the financial side. Allen's Vulcan Ventures now has control of Go2Net (GNET), which owns the popular investment community Silicon Investor. With Datek on board, there are all sorts of cross-selling and leveraging opportunities. Allen's Vulcan Ventures is joining with a fund from Bernard Arnault, the French businessman who controls luxury goods maker LVMH and Boston's $2.5 billion-strong TA Associates investment fund to pump a total of $300 million into Datek in exchange for a minority stake in the online brokerage. The three will have a seat on Datek's board, said President Edward Nicoll. He declined to specify the size of the minority stake, but said the $300 million will be dedicated toward marketing and technology infrastructure expenditures, and new products and services at Datek. - CBS Marketwatch

To: Carolyn who wrote (6182)	5/25/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Humbly report, Carolyn, can't find anything about the phone cos. being allowed to charge long distance rates for internet service - other than rumor. Tried searching Thomas - US Congress on the Internet - thomas.loc.gov - for the keyword "internet". These two facts seem to say the opposite, in regards to the above rumors: thomas.loc.gov thomas.loc.gov Cheers, Svejk proofsheet.com

To: Carolyn who wrote (6182)	5/25/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: robert duke	Respond to of 28311

Anyone know how I should vote? I just got it in the mail. I really don't think that this fee for email will ever even come close to passing. If it does then the internet era is over. This is like charging for miles you drive on the road plus the gas and the car.

To: Carolyn who wrote (6182)	5/25/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28311

CNN is reporting that the phone cos. will start charging long distance rates for internet service It won't fly..... If it does, LOOK OUT webportals. I certainly will become more sensitive as to which site I look at and how often. Fewer people will participate in idle websurfing, exploring what is out and what isn't, as their cost-consciousness goes up. Charging based on data-packets is the stupidest thing they can do. Afterall, most ISP's already pay for their bundled T-3 and Fiber connections on a monthly rate without any limit on the data that is sent across that connection. In fact, much of that bandwidth is actually wasted since ISP's have to maintain enough bandwidth to meet their max peak hours. But at other times of the day, their bandwidth is underutilized. Charging the customer for internet access in a manner similar to a long-distance telephone call will spell the deathknell of ecommerce, IMO. Regards, Ron

To: Carolyn who wrote (6182)	5/25/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 28311

That one's practically an urban legend. I've seen the same thing yearly for about a dozen years. Used to be they were supposedly going to charge a higher rate for connecting to a BBS. Has anyone really seen it in print first-hand yet? Are there pleas to inundate the FCC with email yet?