When I worked at StarText, the pre-Web online service of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the biggest fear of the paper's executives was the loss of classified ad revenue to competitors. Be afraid: The Internet has 10 percent of the help-wanted ad market and may have as much as 25 percent in three years.

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