🚀 go-pugleaf

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 ??

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

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

Q4    Do you believe this message will get more than 10 or 15 replys !


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


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
!