Re: registries and lotteries

["Marty Modell" <ir001264@mindspring.com>]

According to a recent article there are 30 million URLs out there and 
nine million e-mail addresses.  The ad council estimates that more 
than $20 million in ad revenues will be generated on the internet 
this year.  If that isn't commercial I don't know what is.

BTW Isn't Mr Dillion the one who said that he spends 10-12 hours a 
day on the net and only reads his local papaer once a week and he 
didn't watch TV.  Must live in a cave somewhere.  He is obviously 
completely in touch with relity.  He obviously can avoid seeing the 
ad banners that appear on almost evry site on the net  (including the 
netscape/Internet Explorer Now buttons which probably don't qualfy i 
his mind as commercials)

> >   Thanks for that vote of confidance.  This is a Consumer/commerce
> > driven
> > world, and we all need to face that reality!
> 
> You may live in a consumer/commerce driven world however the reality is
> that the majority of the world's population and the majority of Internet
> users do not. This is the reality. Anything that IAHC does has to
> recognize the reality that the Internet is *NOT* a commercial network and 
> must continue to meet the needs of non-commercial users.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com
> 
> 
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