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Feb 8, 1999, 1:48am

I tire of reading blatantly wrong information in AW's press releases:

>From http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990121/ma_activew_1.html:

"Active Worlds(TM) currently has a user base of over 300,000 users worldwide on the one Universe server (Uniserver) COFS
operates. This Active Worlds 3D universe receives over 1 million impressions per day."

According to Roland Vilette, AW's "lead" (only) programmer (after COF dumped the original programmer, Ron Britvich, who is, I
believe, still in the process of suing COF for stealing AW):

Telegram from Roland (Thu Nov 12, 1998 6:49 PM):
"oh, you asked earlier...AW has about 14,000 paid citizens now."

Note that is PAID citizens...people who have shelled out a measly $20 for one (1) year of citizenship. The "over 300,000 users" is
misleading, too, since most of those "users" aren't users at all, but tourists, and because most tourists don't ever come back!

More from Roland:

Telegram from Roland (Thu Nov 12, 1998 6:52 PM):
"usage frequency? Like how often does a given person log in? I don't know that, it isn't being tracked...I know we get about 700
new users a day, and average around 300 people in the system 24 hours a day"

and:

Telegram from Roland (Thu Nov 12, 1998 6:52 PM):
"the ratio of citizens to tourists in the system at any one time is usually around 3 to 1."

And a bit of information on Vanguard Enterprises, Inc. (the "company" who supposedly "bought" COF):

Telegram from Roland (Sat Jan 23, 1999 7:20 PM):
"I have no idea who Vanguard was...I only just found out about all this myself...my understanding is that Vanguard was just some
empty shell of a company sitting dormant on the stock market that was merged with COF for the purpose of making COF public."

To all the investors and potential investors, learn more about AW before you blow your money on a scam.

http://tnlc.com/mauz/awhistory.html for a THOROUGH history of AW.

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