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[Una Smith]

Andrey Sharkov <Sharkov.1 at osu.edu> writes:

> Did anybody think why 99% of the participants in this discussion are form
> the United States or Western Europe. May be scientists form other parts of
> the world have no opinion on that subject, or they do not do any taxonomic
> work and do not care, is EP accepted or not? I don think so. I think that
> most of them have no idea that we even discuss it here, because they do not
> have an Internet access. Some of them also do not have a computer.


Only about 75% of the 1266 current TAXACOM *subscribers* are in the US or
Western Europe.  Only 50% are in the US:  this is the lowest percentage I
have ever noticed on TAXACOM.  The Internet is dominated now by Americans
because we were the first to have widespread access, and participation by
people elsewhere closely follows the availability of the Internet in those
countries.

Here are some more numbers:


  Total number of users subscribed to TAXACOM: 1266
  Total number of countries represented:         49

  Country        Subscribers
  -------        -----------
  Argentina              3
  Australia             97
  Austria                4
  Belgium               18
  Brazil                15
  Canada                54
  Chile                  4
  Colombia               7
  Costa Rica            10
  Croatia                2
  Czech Republic         2
  Denmark               11
  Estonia                4
  Finland               13
  France                12
  Germany               20
  Great Britain         62
  Hongkong               2
  Hungary                3
  Iceland                1
  Ireland                3
  Italy                 16
  Japan                 14
  Korea                  2
  Malaysia               4
  Mexico                21
  Netherlands           30
  New Zealand           12
  Norway                10
  Peru                   1
  Poland                 6
  Portugal               2
  Russia                 6
  Singapore              2
  Slovakia               4
  South Africa          26
  Soviet Union           2
  Spain                 18
  Sweden                30
  Switzerland           10
  Taiwan                 9
  Turkey                 2
  Ukraine                2
  Uruguay                1
  USA                  664
    EDU 464
    COM  71
    GOV  25
    NET  17
     US   9
  Venezuela              5
  ??? (1])               1
  ??? (2])               1
  ???                   18


        Una Smith