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> The browser can be slow, but Tashbook said Web pages selected by America 
> Online subscribers are stored in the system's computers for 24 hours. Once
> one subscriber has looked at a page, it will load faster for anyone else who
> looks at it within a day."
> <<<<<<<<<
> 
> Will this caching mean that pages with more-than-once-daily updates (stocks,
> etc.) will not be accurate? Or will the caching just save time for the
> graphics?
> 
If AOL sets up their caching properly, the server will check to see 
if the original page has been updated before sending their cached 
copy to their subscriber. I don't know that they've done it right. 
Based on my experiences with the beta, I'm not willing to bet on it. 

Steven 
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols  |QOTD: Operating at nineteen
sjvn@access.digex.net      |cents short of a paradigm. 
Infobahn Traffic Reporter  |

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