Re: The net is a RORT!!!

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From: Kym Horsell
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <57je78$t9o@demeter.omen.com.au>,
Dean Campbell <dcampbell@southwest.com.au> wrote:
>Lets assume there is only 1 million people (cough , splutter)  on the
>net and only   .01 percent (thats a pritty small amount) of those
>people could be bothered to reply !!!  I should still have got around
>100 replys !  Sure not everyone hangs around the same groups but I
...

Did you post to every newsgroup, every IRC channel, every BB,
set up a Web page on every node, etc?

At last count there were around 4000 news groups so I gather you
should be prepared to divide your "100" by something of this order
to find your expectation. 

You might also have to factor in the interest level of your post. ;-)
-- 
R. Kym Horsell
KHorsell@EE.Latrobe.EDU.AU              kym@CS.Binghamton.EDU 
http://WWW.EE.LaTrobe.EDU.AU/~khorsell  http://CS.Binghamton.EDU/~kym

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From: khorsell@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Kym Horsell)
Subject: Re: The net is a RORT!!!
Date: 1996/12/06
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