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Ms. Ashe's popularity
on the Internet has spawned a number of third party websites, online clubs
and Usenet newsgroups not counted in the calculations above. A significant
number of images of Danni Ashe have been downloaded from these areas over
the years. Also, coverage of Ms. Ashe's unusually successful business
career has resulted in significant additional exposure on news media websites.
If the following
sources were included, the total number of downloads counted would certainly
be millions higher.
Newsgroups
The alt.fan.danni-ashe newsgroup has been in existence for several years
and is used by fans as a forum for trading images taken from our websites.
Between dedicated newsgroups like alt.fan.danni-ashe and others on more
general topics, there are 2000-4000 images of Ms. Ashe available for download
on any given day. Unfortunately, there's no reliable way of counting the
number of people who frequent these groups or the number of images each
person downloads.
Advertising
Danni Ashe images are used in a number of ads, placed on a number of very
popular websites. For example, www.persiankitty.com
has carried an ad for Danni's Hard Drive on their homepage since the fall
of 1996. This ad most often features an image of Danni and is downloaded
every time the site is accessed. In 1999, the Persian Kitty website recorded
92,225,063 unique IP's (statistics courtesy of Flying Crocodile).
Commercial and news websites
Images of Ms. Ashe can be found on many commercial and private websites,
including sites for companies such as Playboy (http://www.playboy.com/digital/pictorial/wildweb2),
US News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000327/graphics/x40609.htm)
and The Washington Post (http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/00/ashe0517.htm).
Fan sites and clubs
There are a number of fans who've built fan pages to trade images of,
and discuss, Ms. Ashe. As of July 13th 2000, there were 8 active clubs
at Yahoo! Clubs and many other fan sites across the web.
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