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> "In Washington DC, officials from the White House, federal agencies and Congress say regulations may be necessary to promote a free-market system." -- CommunicationsWeek International April 21, 1997