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Bart de Pontieu wrote:

>6. SeeSat-L has as of today, for the first time in its 3-year-and-1-mont=
h
>history, 450 subscribers. For those who like statistics, 55 people are
>subscribed to the SeeSat-digest (SeeSat-D), the rest receives messages i=
n
>'real time'. =


I am actually subscribed to both. The L version provides me with messages=

in 'real time', and these messages are deleted after I have read them.
However, I archive the D version in case I want to look up something late=
r.
This is much more expedient than keeping the invidual messages with all
their overhead.


>Germany and Britain make up 15% of subscribers, i.e. half of the
>European subscribers. France only has 3 subscribers!

Probably it has a few more more (...@aol.com, ...@compuserve.com).


>This dominance in Europe of the UK and Germany is probably due to the fa=
ct
>that Internet has not taken off in Europe very much except for a few
>countries like the UK and Germany.

In my experience it is at least equally due to the limited command of
English in the romance-language countries of Europe.

Much more could be said about the underlying reasons for this situation,
but this would be way off-topic.


Bruno Tilgner
Saint-Cloud, France
Bruno_Tilgner@compuserve.com

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