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To: john defreitas who wrote (24454)	11/16/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Director	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27307

>>105 mil users as of sept<<... I have set-up several accounts on Yahoo! One I use when I'm there but the others just sit there. They don't close accounts, they just keep counting them. That's a huge difference between an AOL, (who charges, and thus can verify users) and a freebie like Yahoo!. YHOO's number of "users" are probably 30-40% lower than they claim. I alone count as 5 users according to them. And the fact that they don't "purge" accounts that don't get used, after a specified period of time, means that even those people who register out of curiosity and never return, get counted as a "user" forever. When this gets looked at in-depth, it will hit their bottom line (advertising dollars) hard.