Quote from shortie:
let me just make sure i got it right. did 1 million people subscribe to a free website where Oddball system calls were shown to all subscribers of that website? did 1 million people directly subscribe to this system? what year was it? 2002? Is there some data that demonstrates for example that when only 20K people subscribed the system was working but slowly deteriorated as the number of subscribers reached 1M?
to get it right - there were well over 1mm email subscribers. that was one yea after the release. actually the system got better and better from release up to the one million mark then it deteriorated.
there were subscribers from every country and many mit gov mil boa ing and a ton of people from boing i remember - i was fascinated by all the 3 letter domains and spend my days hitting their web sites to see who they were. i think at peak the list had about 1.7mm when i flipped it off.
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