Re: SPA statement and RSAC release

[Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>]

A press release forwarded by Declan wrote:
>  "Understanding its responsibility, the software industry several years ago
>helped establish a process of self-regulation and content ratings through the
>Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC).  Today, RSAC, through its
>Internet ratings system -- RSACi -- has assigned objective content labels to
>more than 35,000 online sites in just 12 months.

I just read yesterday in the WEBONOMICS STORIES Newsletter:

> The first sentence in WEBONOMICS is: "New sites on the World Wide Web
> have been cropping up at the rate of one per minute." I'm pleased to
> report that this furious pace has continued -- almost exactly. Network
> Solutions Inc., the Virginia-based company that registers domain name
> addresses for U.S. Web sites, says that it had registered a total of
> 818,000 addresses by March 1997, up from 246,000 a year earlier. That's
> 572,000 new Web sites in a year, or 1,567 per day, or 65 per hour, or
> 1.08 per minute!


Taking these two statements together, the RSACi people have managed,
in the last 12 months, to rate just over 6% of the _new_ web sites in
the last year.

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Aladdin Systems   <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>

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