[9604] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gore on CompuServe and C-SPAN (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Jan 14 00:32:28 1994
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 00:31 EST
From: emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
vic@access.digex.net writes:
: The conference will be held in CompuServe's Convention Center, which holds
: 300 people. The historic nature of this meeting, however, has prompted CIS
: to add two computers, making space available for an additional 600 people,
: As I write, all 900 slots are filled, making this this the most heavily
: attended live computer-mediated conference ever held.
The IRC network has had more than 900 users on line at once, in particular
traffic was quite heavy during the Gulf War and during the elections.
I know I've seen upwards of 1100 people logged in (though I can't say just
how many people were on any given channel).
I would dispute CompuServe's claim of "most heavily attended ever".
--Ed
