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Re: The net is a RORT!!!

#880
From: Martin Lindsay
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.

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>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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From: clarke@web.net.au (Martin Lindsay)
Subject: Re: The net is a RORT!!!
Date: 1996/11/28
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