At 8/6/01 12:41 AM, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>The truth is that no one knows how many people have access to the
>Internet.
There are many reputable studies that are accurate to within a reasonable
margin of error; I read some of them to get the 450 million number.
The phrase "the truth is that no one knows how many people have access to
the Internet" sounds like a way to avoid the discussion of how many
people can't resolve New.net names. There's no way to get the exact truth
about how many people have access to New.net names, either, but you seem
to have no trouble using that figure.
>> Again, I challenge you to put that number on your Web site. Last time
>> this came up, you publicly replied that your company would "look into"
>> it. Are you still doing so?
>
>I went back through my messages just to be certain I hadn't had a lapse
>of memory, and I can't find any statement to that effect.
You're right; I apologize. David Hernand, President of New.net, was the
person who said he would consider it, and not you.
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0105/0285.html
>> You also acknowledged that your domains had limitations, but suggested
>> that they were okay for someone who only needed a few friends to access
>> his site and didn't care about whether the wider Internet population
>> could always access them.
>
>I certainly have said the former, but did not say the latter.
Again, you're correct and I apologize. Again, it was David Hernand,
President of New.net, who said that:
"Other users don't care that the majority of US Internet users cannot
easily access their .family website intended for use primarily by the
website owners' family members and friends."
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0105/0214.html
My apologies for attributing Mr. Hernand's words to you in both cases; it
was unintentional.
--
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
