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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: On seeing the differences in what is and what should be
Message-ID: <6295@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-May-87 22:25:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 22:25:46 1987
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References: <676@van-bc.UUCP> <832@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <832@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
<> Last statistics I saw printed (Info World or similiar type weekly news rag,
<> sometime late last fall) place register users of Compuserve EMail at about
<> 275,000 users. Telemail was in third place with about 80,000. 
<
< That's EMAIL. Besides, the question is amount of material. Not the number of
< users. I seriously doubt that they get 10 megabytes worth of postings every
< week...

On CIS, I currently read some of the Comic forum, the audio parts of
the Consumer Electronics Forum, and sometimes the Mac forumes.  I
download messages from these forums about once every week, and get
anywhere from 200k to 600k or so.  Considering the huge number of
forums, I wouldn't find 10 meg a week that unreasonable.

I will watch more carefully over the next few weeks and try to get
a more accurate estimate.
-- 
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