Re: List membership top-level domain counts

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I pulled the subscribers list for this mailing list and did some
> aggregate counts of the top-level domains that people are subscribed
> from (results are below).  The only problem with the results are that I
> suspect that a great number of people not residing in the US have a
> .com, .net, or .org email address which skews the results a bit towards
> the US.  Nevertheless, we could probably use these counts as a simple
> priority list if we ever started localizing strings in the X Server.
>
> Some of you may find this interesting:
>
>      169 com
>       50 net
>       35 de
>       31 org
>       17 edu
>       17 jp
>       12 uk
>       10 fr
>        7 au
>        6 ca
>        5 at
>        5 be
>        5 se
>        4 it
>        4 ru
>        3 es
>        3 gov
>        3 no
>        3 nz
>        3 us
>        2 ch
>        2 cz
>        2 fi
>        2 hu
>        2 kr
>        2 tw
>        2 ua
>        1 br
>        1 by
>        1 co
>        1 cx
>        1 hk
>        1 hr
>        1 ie
>        1 il
>        1 li
>        1 nl
>        1 to

This, of course, doesn't account for the people reading this list via
gmane.org, or those subscribed to cygwin-xfree-allow or even global-allow,
and/or those using the web archives...
	Igor
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