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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Lynn Brock wrote:

> Rex:

> Do you know the source of the 200 Million number you mentioned below?  I've
> quoted it also, but have been unable to find the original source, even
> after considerable effort...

It was originally in NetWorld (march 1994).  The internet had just
combined MCI, BT, AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve, along with FidoNet.  Each
network was claiming their actual number of billable accounts as the
number o users supported.  This also included aliases and every expired
mail address on old host machines.

A more realistic number was probably 30-40 million.  Of those, only about 
20 million were active e-mail users.  Prodigy users for example were 
being charged 50 cents/page C.O.D. for incoming internet traffic.

> Lynn
 
> Lynn Brock (lbrock@prosaix.com)
> 408/353-4781   408/353-1404 FAX
> 
	Rex Ballard


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