On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, Rainmaker wrote:
> I'm sure AOL added million customers, since they are now with
> Netscape. If you get NS 4.5 it asks periodically if you want to
> sign up. And Compaq has it on their systems. And don't forget
> those kzillion CD's offering 100 hours free. So for every
> million that sign up for the free 100 hours, how many leave after 100 hours?
Sigh. I think you're buying into their hype. AOL's user count
inflation practices have allegedly included:
- assuming one user per screen name
- counting users who signed up for a trial period and didn't stay
- using estimated user count per household instead of actual users
- counting inactive accounts
- counting accounts which users have requested be closed
These and other tactics have purpotedly been used over a period of years
to artificially increase AOL's user numbers. David Cassel's "AOL watch"
newsletter has discussed these over and over again; if even half of what
he says is true, AOL has far fewer users than they claim.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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