Re: Independence Day Thoughts

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: 5 Jul 2004 14:50:44 GMT

On 2004-07-05, Terrell Miller <millerto@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Oh, and this newsgroup doesn't map to any specific country. Henry, for
> instance, is a Brit loving in Canada. Several of our regulars are Aussies,

I thought he was from a backwater part of Canada, not a backwater part
of Europe...

> and many more are from other countries. This isn't "our" newsgroup. We're
> global, baby! ;)

A while ago, I started keeping a little list, just out of curiosity, to
see how many countries I run across on an (ir)regular basis on Usenet.
Based entirely on TLDs, thirty-three; probably a few more posting
through non-geographic (ie .org) domains. .ai through .pe to .ua...

Sure, this isn't just ss.*, but it's not exactly a large sample set -
most of it comes frome three, four newsgroups - and it's without
actively looking for them (which would make the list grow massively).
It's an interesting datapoint.

I think the rough breakdown is US, then the next tier broadly equal
UK/CA/AU, then a second layer of reasonably common (mostly European).
But I haven't checked. 

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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