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On Oct 3,  1:05pm, Keith Moore wrote:

> { re the assertion that mapi has 80% of the market }
> > Talk to folks at META, IDA, etc.  The facts are correct.  
> 
> seems like this ignores the extremely large numbers of 
> Eudora, Pine, and Netscape users out there...
> 
> given that there are several million of each of these,
> the 80% figure looks really dubious.

    The vast majority of people that have mail-only access to the
Internet are doing so through LAN-based (or BBS-based) products
through gateways, and the vast majority of people that have POP
access actually have full Internet access (including the web).
All estimates I've seen indicate that the number of people with
just mail access is about ten times the the number of people with
full access.

    Now you know where they're getting their numbers.

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