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- From: an7838@anon.penet.fi
- Subject: Re: Who Reads this Newsgroup? RESULTS OF SURVEY
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.205554.741@fuug.fi>
- Sender: anon@fuug.fi (The Anon Administrator)
- Organization: Anonymous contact service
- X-Anonymously-To: alt.personals,alt.personals.ads,alt.personals.misc,alt.personals.bondage,alt.personals.poly,alt.backrubs
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:56:36 GMT
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- X-Anon-To: alt.personals,alt.personals.ads,alt.personals.misc,alt.personals.bondage,alt.personals.poly,alt.backrubs
-
- About 2 weeks ago, I posted a question to the above newsgroups that simply
- asked who read the groups. Respondents were asked to state only two things:
- their nationality and gender, thus for example, Belgian, Male. Here are the
- results of the survey, other remarks will follow. There were 88 people that
- responded as follows:
-
- FEMALE MALE TOTAL
- USA 14 43 57
- Canada 2 5 7
- Britain 0 5 5
- Germany 0 4 4
- India 0 3 3
- France 0 2 2
- Australia 0 2 2
- Belgium 0 1 1
- Chile 0 1 1
- New Zealand 1 0 1
- UNDETERMINED* 3 2 5
-
- TOTAL 20 68 88
-
-
- * I was not able to determine the nationalities of 5 people who responded
- such as: Single White Female, Caucasian male, white male. Someone said
- Female, Heinz 57. I have no clue what Heinz 57 means!!
-
- There was really no reason for the survey. I was just looking through some of
- the newsgroups and couldn't believe some of what people said they wanted to
- do to others or have others do to themselves, i.e. in newsgroups such as
- alt.personals.bondage. So I thought, let me find out where some of these
- people come from. I am NOT infering that those who responded do all those
- things to themselves, so do not send me hate mail!! Also, I know that (or so
- it is said) some of the newsgroups are distributed world wide. So I wanted to
- know how world wide they are distributed.
-
- Some of the colorful comments that I received along with the responses may
- reveal the shortcomings of this *survey* (and I'm supposed to be a
- researcher!!). So here we go:
-
- *I'm addicted ... I read only alt.personals (occasionally) and alt.pers.ads
- *Actually, we Americans lack a true word for nationality. Canadians and
- Mexicans are both Americans, what I should really say is US citizen.
- *You oughta get ages too.
- *Of the newsgroups you posted to, I read only alt.personals.poly
- *But this isn't going to be useful because you can't tell which group the
- responding people read.
- *Now, if that doesn't bring to mind a few stereotypes. I read only
- alt.backrubs as opposed to all the others you cross posted to
- *Surveys? What a concept
-
- For some respondents, it was not enough to state their nationality, some went
- on to state data like: singlegle, male, heterosexual;; whitte 20 yrs old,
- military, American/Italian, American-German-Italian-Irish, American (Jewish),
- African American and thanks for asking, American Northeast, Canadian English
- WASP, Chinese-Canadian and I'm proud.
-
- Make of the comments whatever you wish. I think they were wonderful,
- insightful, revealing (of how we feel about who we are) and a good number of
- them were very funny!! I most certainly wish everyone of you out there
- whatever good things you wish for yourselves and others; long life,
- prosperity, happiness, etc. Oh, somebody thought the survey may just be a way
- for me to get e mail addresses from females!! What an idea. Yes, I am
- certainly male, single, available, employed, and I LOVE women. But I am not
- that stupid to start firing off messages to someone just because they are
- female. What if she is married, or lesbian, or has a gun-toting significant
- other? And besides, I'm just a foreigner here in the good US of A, and a
- minority at that. But despite all that, I am a happy go-lucky guy.
-
- Have fun.
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