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clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
 >This may well be true, but irrelevant - something like 80% of the people
 >on the net are in the USA.

Actually, it's more like 70%.

                + Total # of articles
                |        + Total # articles as a percentage of the whole net
                |        |           + Total # of unique posters
                |        |           |       + How many don't have net access
                |        |           |       | for every one that does
                |        |           |       |           + Percentage of the
                |        |           |       |           | population with
                |        |           |       |           | net access
                |        |           |       |           |
country         articles %of net     posters 1/others    %of population
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
American        74121    70.716%     22726   11110      0.00900% 
Canadian        4772     4.553%     1715    13411      0.00746% 
New-Zealand     727      0.694%     221     14932      0.00670% 
Australian      3013     2.875%     1095    15525      0.00644% 
Finnish         898      0.857%     292     17092      0.00585% 
Norwegian       619      0.591%     231     18497      0.00541% 
Icelandic       30       0.029%     11      23636      0.00423% 

 >Railing about poor maintenance is simply not going to do any good.  To
 >be used, 8bit penetration must be near 100%.  Maybe in a couple of years
 >it will be practical to ship 8 bit when INN and C news cover the vast
 >majority.

The sooner the better, really.  If you've ever had JIS code (Japanese) spewed
back at you by some prehistoric site, you'll know what I mean.


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 Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au