Yo! John:
Sunday June 22 1997 09:08, John Hoyt wrote to Scott Christensen:
 SC>> Going by the chart, I believe MacKennel - the premier mailer for the
 SC>> Mac - should fly a XA flag.
 JH> If you were flying the XA flag, I would assume your mailer was:
 JH> F'reqable for files and updates using: Bark, WaZoo, & ZedZap
 JH> I would make no assumptiion as to the actual mailer or the platform that
 JH> mailer was running on from that flag...
 SC>> That shoots everything Bill has been trying to say about Macs on
 SC>> Fidonet all to pieces.
Show me in the nodelist where the XA flag even hints at a Mac possibility. 
What IS there is conclusively NOT possible for a Mac except under DOS 
emulation, maybe. But what self-respecting Mac runs DOS?
 SC>> Also, I think that Bill will find that something like 30% to 40% of the
 SC>> computers that access the Internet are Macs - with around 10% of them
 SC>> in the population at large.
Actually, the big consulting firms are saying 4% now (re PCWEEK and 
InfoWORLD).
 JH> I do think that is close to correct, more like 20-25% from what I
 JH> have heard,
I would LOVE to see some sum and substance on those numbers.  For now, I'll 
give you and Scott the benefit of the doubt and assume you pulled 'em outa 
your hats.......but since people don't keep numbers in their hats...... never 
mind. Just lay some authoritative numbers on me... or authoritative 
references. That'll make me happy and shut me up.
 JH> but still, that is a high percentage, when you consider there are PCs
 JH> out the butt in this world, where are they all if they are not on the
 JH> 'net?
All over the net..............   :-)
 SC>> .................            That means that of the "power users" of
 SC>> any particular platform, more of the Mac users are power users than the
 SC>> other plaforms.  
 JH> Well, let's put it this way...  You don't see Macs sitting around 
used.
You don't see Macs, period.  Much.  Current talk in certain circles has it 
that we'll be seeing 'em in the landfills soon.   :-)
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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