John Blair <jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu> writes -

1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net? 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users, etc.) over the next several years?

Vint Cerf, President of the Internet Society, projected some interesting figures at ONE BBSCON in Colorado recently. According to an article in the October BoardWatch magazine, ".....by December, 1993, there will be over 2 million ping-able hosts on some 46,000 registered IP networks in 22,000 registered domains strewn across some 91 countries. As of June, 1991, it is NOT primarily academic use, but actually that was the crossover point where commercial use applications exceeded academic use. Over 137 countries are now reachable via the Internet domain name e-mail system via UUCP, and the NSFNet backbone is now carrying some 7 TERABYTES of traffic per month. The Internet overall is growing at a rate of 12% per MONTH." You do the math. ,-) Cheers.