[RawAlex]

Mike, I think these days we are doing to "circles"... around a chat board, or in a city, or region, or whatever, there are groups of people who are aware of each other, etc. They interact within the circle pretty much exclusively.

I go to shows now and see the people I have known for years, and the rest of the people are nameless and transient for me, they come, they go, and nobody is the wiser.

Travelling a couple of year ago to a european show told me that there is a whole other world out there of webmasters with sites, programs, traffic, and situations that have nothing to do with the "US-centric" original online porn situation (which in reality was the US / Canada / Australia / England round). Their business models were different, they revenue streams different, etc.

There are literally thousands of russian and polish webmasters out there that we will never meet, never see, who turn out tens of thousands of free sites and piles of new membership sites each month. They would their own situations, I only find them when they submit to my link sites. Otherwise they don't exist - their programs aren't open to general webmasters, and they don't mix within the community. Some people would suggest that there is some very strong organized crime elements at work in these situations, and my lack of commentary should say alot on the subject.

G-F-Y has broken the barrier between webmaster and surfer wide open (a recent poll had about 20% of the people actually admitting to being surfers), which has further diluted the community and lowered to overall value of webmaster chat boards for business.

Alex