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- From: mlloyd@westmark.Stanford.EDU (Mike Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: accidently out
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.025951.5955@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov14.191029.23778@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 02:59:51 GMT
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- eruthstr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ellyn Ruthstrom) writes:
- : This is my first post to a newsgroup--can't wait to be
- : demuffined--heavy on the butter.
-
- OK, so a few days late, but *wild*demuffining*hugs* from this quarter.
- Heavy on the butter, too. Welcome aboard :-)
-
- : The other thing I've been interested in with this group is the number of bis
- : writing from England.
-
- Hmm. Perhaps that's what you meant to say, but it looks plausible
- you're being dangerously vague about national boundaries here ... there
- are indeed a lot of English posters on this group, but the highest
- single point concentration must be in Edinburgh, which is distinctly on
- the far side of a certain border that shows some risk of becoming more
- important in the nearish future. Just a small point, but important to
- some :-)
-
- Any theories on why there are proportionately less US posters than one
- might expect from the net's constituents might interest me too, though.
- Personally, my vote is for a chain sociological explanation: a local
- "tradition" of Brit posters leads to more Brit posters, in the same way
- that immigrant communities build up. That is to say, the "disparity"
- (such as it is) is from more Brit posters as noted, than less US. It
- seems this is particularly valid for the hugh number of Australians
- here, who appear very much as a sociologically-connected segment.
-
- hugs
- Mike, "theories, theories, two for a penny!"
- --
- Mike Lloyd, B0/1 h- f- t w- g+ k+ s m- e? | "Bloody nose and burning eyes
- Retro-hippy, music nut, bi and | Raised in laughter to the skies"
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- --The end of confusion is the beginning of death--
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