covington said:
>   They had about 750,000 subscribers then. 
>   Then about  3 million the next year.

i joined when they had 300,000.
(i was on compuserve and "the source" back in the mid-80's.)

it took them 6 years to get their first 300,000.
took 'em 6 months to get their next 300,000.

-bowerbird