Forwarded from misc.invest: In article <476@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

Do you ever thing we will see something like E-trade on the Internet ?

They tell me that the Internet is not secure, so you would risk having your password compromised. But, yes, I assume that this will come eventually.

I would really like to see a service I could connect to using Telnet...as the services that are currently available are impractical for me - AOL is totally out of the question, as connecting to them would involve an international phone call, and CompuServe would require going through the X.25 network, which is not cheap either....I already pay around $7000/year for decent Internet access, and don't want to double that by using X.25

I have been told that one can telnet to compuserve.com, but when I tried it I got Unknown host. ....