Someone asked about the compostion (or is it decomposition) of the
TML readership by country/continent..
Well, I don't have the PBEM mailing list ready yet (already behind...)
but James was kind enough to send me a copy of his list, so in the
process of confirming my addresses and so forth extracted some data
for us to gaze upon:
****** Traveller Mailing List Status -- Unofficial Version ******
September 1990
Total readership: around 200 (my line count was 209, but it
probably changes daily)
Australia: 5
Canada: 9
Denmark: 2
Finland: 4 (where is Turkill, anyway?)
Iceland: 1
Ireland: 3
Israel: 1
Sweden: 7
Taiwan: 1
United Kingdom: 12
United States: 122
Unknown: 43 (This includes readers whose residence might
be guessed, but declined to tell James where
they lived.)
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I know there was at least one posting from somewhere in South America,
but the participant must have been added after the list I got, or he/she
is one of the "unknowns".
The PBEM has players in all of those listed countries except Iceland and
Finland. (and unknown - all the players told me where they live :-)
I am saddened to learn the William Morrison, Leader of the Commerce List,
and co-leader of the mapping list has lost net access. A Toast to Bill:
"until we e-mail again!"
Richard Johnson