On Wednesday, December 13th, 1995 - Troy H. Cheek wrote:
 
 RR> DISINFORMATION_CAMPAIGN.  Be sure to take your salt supplement
 RR> before reading there.  :-)
 
TH> At this rate, my doctor will have to increase my blood pressure 
TH> medication.
 
Heheheheheheheheheh...  :-)
 
 RR> are big enough SUCKERS to believe everything that spews forth from
 RR> the Internet are not an accurate or representative sample of the
 RR> Jaguar's target audience.  Enjoy.  :-)
 
TH> I don't have a statistical sample.  What I do have are people who 
 
The only sample you really need is the percentage of people really
on-line.  According to what I've read, most of the American game console 
market is represented by households that don't even own computers, and
the primary users of the consoles are children and teenagers.  If you
really want to worry about something, worry that Atari is not
advertising enough, and that their products are displayed on the bottom
shelves.  Also of major concern is that Atari was late getting Jaguar
into the stores for the post-Thanksgiving selling period.
 
TH> claim to know a lot more about Fidonet than I do saying that for 
TH> every person who posts something, there are at least 100 people who 
TH> never post but think the exact same way.
 
Ah yes, the old "Greater Lurker" theory.  This one comes out of the hat
like a white rabbit whenever somebody wants to reinforce their position. 
Ask every sysop you know if they keep an accurate log of regular callers 
and which callers read but do not post in particular conferences.  I
think you'll find that this data does not exist - there aren't enough
people who care enough about this to determine if it has any basis in
fact.  There may not be a single sysop in this country that compiles
this data for their own BBS, much less having it compiled for systems
across the country.
 
Here is the alternative hypothesis: Most people that take the time to
read Fidonet conferences REGULARLY are most likely to be participants in 
those conferences.
 
If anyone wants to demonstrate the validity of either theory, let 'em
try.  Let's see their data.  :-)
 
TH> Playstation ads have my eyes glazing over.  Same with the Sega 
TH> Saturn. Of course, you have to watch really close to even figure out 
TH> which system the commercial is for.
 
I know what you mean, they seem to be advertising identical games!  
But I can tell the difference because the Sony ads give you longer
screen shots and the graphics look a lot better than the Saturn's.
I haven't seen an Atari ad in a week or maybe longer.  I guess Atari is
just flat out of money.
 
The least of Atari's woes is the on-line scutttlebutt.
 
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