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dcampbell@southwest.com.au (Dean Campbell) wrote:

>Greetings everyone ,
>I just need to get this off my chest . No doubt there will be flames
>from some of you but I can live with that !!!

>THE INTERNET IS A RORT !!!!!	

>How many of you have seen postings on how many MILLION people there
>are on the net !  How many of you BELIEVE this number . If you put
>your hand up .....then keep reading , If you didnt put your hand up
>..keep reading any way ! 

>I have always been fascinated buy the figures that get QUOTED . I have
>even posted messages deliberately written to " Stir up the natives "
>to see what sort of response I get . The best I ever got was 16 replys
>from a message posted in 5 different groups that should have seen me
>inundated with accusations of being a sexist pig and racially
>intolerant (im not but I wanted a response ) 

>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
>posted to groups that have a good turnover of messages ! Not everyone
>hangs around news groups , but lets face it there is something like
>10,000 ++ newsgroups ...they cant all be unused . Lets say only 10
>people use each group ......10 X 10,000 thats a lot of people ! OR is
>it . 
>Lets try an experiment here !!!!  I know I have an audience of several
>thousand people maybe more according to the statistics so lets see how
>many people respond to this message !!!!!  Just answer the questions
>below and post it ...it should only take all of 1 minute !!!! Feel
>free to respond by e-mail if you wish ...I will repost the message in
>here so we can all get an idea of how many people are out there !

>I personally think we are being taken for saps by the BIG BOYS who
>like to sell us the fastest modems and flashest computors !!!

>Q1     How many news groups do you subscribe too ??

4
>Q2    What is the greatest amount of replys you have had to one
>posting ??

about 3
>Q3    Do you believe the QUOTED figures of how many people are on the
>net !

yes, mostly
>Q4    Do you believe this message will get more than 10 or 15 replys !

probably not

>Q5   If you run a business and use the net for advertising what sort
>of response do you get from your postings (honestly) ??

n/a

>Please post your replys to this message in here ...you can e-mail me
>if you wish ...I will cut and paste the replys back in here . I would
>just like to see (and I am sure others would too) how many people
>reply to this . I will be very suprised if it gets more than 10 or 15
>replys ! Even if 30 or 40 people take the time to reply that is way
>below .01 percent of an already heavily discounted figure of 1 million
>!

>But then again there are millions of people out there on the net so I
>may be wrong .......RIGHT !

>This is just something that has been stuck in my craw for a while ! 
>This message will either become the record holder of the most replyed
>to message on the net (highly unlikly) or it will prove my point
>.......

>THE INTERNET IS A RORT !!!!!

>Dean Campbell

>Oh yea ...I have only posted this to 2 groups ...Lets see what happens
>!