Other on-line users are requesting Playboy interviews and other articles.

In the last two years, the number of on-line users has more than doubled.

And Mr. Yarden, who describes himself as a "big on-line user," said he hoped that what was available now would be only the beginning.

Internet investors, entrepreneurs and analysts have convinced each other that the only truly Internet-centered business model is one in which on-line users pay nothing for content.

It would be the culmination of his life's work and it would begin with a game sent free to on-line users.

There are a lot of on-line users out there who try to explain what the show does not, which is often a lot.

That is fast enough to offer rich graphics, live video feeds and an end to the finger-tapping delays that most on-line users endure today.

Other on-line users chimed in with reports, all secondhand, of similar experiences.

He said the territory would have 940,000 on-line users by the end of the year and 1.6 million by 2001.

Indeed, on-line users have long complained about the state as being behind the curve on providing on-line data.