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Did I miss something? I was online from about 10 to 11:30 (eastern) 
Tuesday night, had MSNBC RealAudio feed running, hit all the major 
sites and got around with very little trouble. Once I had a long wait 
to get into CNN, but I had three or four other browser windows 
running and had plenty to do. I experienced very few delays.

I notice most of these stories quote site operators but very few 
users.

John Byczkowski
Deloitte & Touche Online
http://www.dtonline.com


B. Compaine wrote 10:02  7 Nov 96:

> Well, right after posting my comments on the above topic I logged into
> CyberTimes, where the lead story is "For Internet, 'Ways to Go' in
> Elections." (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/1107net.html).
> Despite the headline, it confirmed that the sites focusing on politics and
> the elections all received very heavy usage (and the sluggishness at the
> Times' site was due in part to a hacker attack).
> 
> The Times' headline, indeed, is misleading. It should not be surprising
> that overall Internet traffic was up only a few percentage points Tuesday
> night -- after all the profile of Web users (income, education, etc.) is
> consistent with the profile of the television news audience.  That the
> CNNs, Politics Nows, and MSNBCs were flooded at all -- and Internet traffic
> was up even a small amount over normal--sounds to me like a successful
> night, at least on the demand side. That headline would have been accurate
> if those sites had lower normal usage.
> 
> 
> Benjamin Compaine
> Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications
> Chairman, Center for Information Industry Research
> Temple University
> 215-204-6434            e-mail:  bcompaine@usa.net
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