Re: registries and lotteries

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael,

  You don't seem to get it.  Even if it was only a dollar, that would 
represent a transaction, therefore commerce.

Regards,


Michael Dillon wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Marty Modell wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> $20 million a year is a pittance even if you consider just the USA.
> That is a sure indication that the Internet is not commercial.
> 
> > BTW Isn't Mr Dillion the one who said that he spends 10-12 hours a
> > day on the net
> 
> I said I have spent up to 10-12 hrs a day on the net, mostly back when I
> was an Internet Service Provider. Some days I don't even use the net at
> all now.
> 
> > and only reads his local papaer once a week and he
> > didn't watch TV.  Must live in a cave somewhere.
> 
> I don't own a TV and the local paper only comes out once per week. Why
> should you care where I live? I have just as much right to use the
> Internet as you. And I am trying to speak out for the average Internet
> user who does not even know the IAHC exists.
> 
> > 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)
> 
> Most websites that I visit do not have ad banners. I read some magazines
> like Infoworld and of course they have ads just like paper magazines. But
> I primarily use the net for communication with other people via email and
> USENET where there are very few ads. And the websites I visit for
> education and enlightenment are frequently labors of love by people who do
> not derive any revenue from their sites.
> 
> Just because there is commercial activity on the Internet does not make it
> a commercial network and does not make commercial interests the only ones
> who should be given consideration. The majority of Internet users want to
> communicate with other people and want to learn new things. The network
> planners have to keep their interests at the fore because they are the
> majority.
> 
> Obviously many people with commercial interests are here in this forum
> expressing the views of the commercial community. But I'm trying to
> make it clear that there is another community whose voice must be heard if
> only in my second hand accounting of it.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
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