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Article #880Re: The net is a RORT!!!
From: Martin Lindsay
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00
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dcampbell@southwest.com.au (Dean Campbell) wrote: >Q1 How many news groups do you subscribe too ?? 21 but we browse around >Q2 What is the greatest amount of replys you have had to one >posting ?? 3 but I have followed threads of up to 20. We have been online for 3 weeks >Q3 Do you believe the QUOTED figures of how many people are on the >net ! Hard to tell, there are a hell of a lot of WWW sites out there! >Q4 Do you believe this message will get more than 10 or 15 replys ! maybe if you weren't so arrogant and belligerent about it and tried to rationalise your argument. I reckon the NET is a radical improvement in world wide information sharing, given there's hype and the salesmen rip offs and the junk but WOW what a global melting pot of information opinions and KNOWLEDGE. >Q5 If you run a business and use the net for advertising what sort >of response do you get from your postings (honestly) ?? We use Email for client access to data, it is growing, slowly. snipped >below .01 percent of an already heavily discounted figure of 1 million Not everybody speaks english >But then again there are millions of people out there on the net so I >may be wrong .......RIGHT ! Maybe they can't be bothered replying to one disillusioned user. They are too busy ENJOYING the resources! >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 >....... You have programmed yourself for disappointment and negativity. >THE INTERNET IS A RORT !!!!! But we LOVE IT! martin >Oh yea ...I have only posted this to 2 groups ...Lets see what happens >!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,e3205d0a400fc050 X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,e3205d0a400fc050 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: clarke@web.net.au (Martin Lindsay) Subject: Re: The net is a RORT!!! Date: 1996/11/28 Message-ID: <57jtmp$vde@opera.iinet.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 202259796 references: <57je78$t9o@demeter.omen.com.au> organization: webnet services reply-to: clarke@web.net.au newsgroups: wa.general,aus.general