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Folks,
Last month was our fourth birthday and our third anniversary at Eh.Net.
The earliest extant subscriber list is 1996-03-01. Here is a report on
the number and geographic distribution of subscribers, derived from the
four annual snapshots. (I produce a "Geographic" report quarterly but
sometimes distribute it only privately.)
----Paul Wendt, Subscriptions Manager
HES SUBSCRIBER REPORT, Mar'99 6 Mar 99
----------------------------- Paul Wendt
1 Suppl: Geographic Distribution 1999-03
The HES email list has 547 subscribers. That is a count of persons, not
addresses, and it incorporates a few other corrections. For example, 18
web-based subscribers in Russia have not replied to my welcome inquiry and
are not counted here.
Thirteen quarterly snapshots cover the 36 months since HES joined Eh.Net,
based at Miami University, Ohio USA. The current snapshot appears in the
first column of numbers at left, with the quarterly history back to March
1996 at right; times passes from right to left.
CONTENTS:
SUBSCRIBERS BY
LARGE "REGION" (USA, Europe, ...)
COUNTRY (USA, France, ...)
INSTITUTION (Duke U, U Amsterdam, ...)
TECHNICAL NOTES ("USAmerica" and "English")
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SUBSCRIBERS BY LARGE "REGION"
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This a coarse and simplistic residential classification. All subscribers
South of the USA reside where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken. All other
subscribers outside the USA, Europe, and Asia (Turkey to Indonesia) reside
in the former British empire. So long as that is true, I will be probably
be satisfied with five "regions" and two of them named "Latin America" and
"Commonwealth".
NUMBER OF PERSONS
NOW 1998 1997 1996-03-01
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ALL SUBSCRIBERS 547 471 388 200
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US America 253 221 205 112
Europe 181 151 110 58
Asia 32 25 20 11
Latin America 15 15 12 3 (south of US)
Commonwealth 66 59 41 16 (CA, ZA, AU, NZ)
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US America 253 221 205 112
not US America 294 250 183 88
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English 348 303 264 137 (Commonwealth, US, UK, Ireland)
not English 199 168 124 63
PERCENT SHARE OF SUBSCRIBERS
NOW 1998 1997 1996-03-01
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ALL SUBSCRIBERS 100% 100 100 100
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US America 46 47 53 56
Europe 33 32 28 29
Asia 6 5 5 6
Latin America 3 3 3 1
Commonwealth 12 13 11 8
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US America 46 47 53 56
not US America 54 53 47 44
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English 64 64 68 68
not English 36 36 32 32
PERCENT ANNUAL GROWTH
YEAR TO 1997 1996
1999-03-01 -98 -97
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ALL SUBSCRIBERS 16% 21% 94%
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US America 14 8 83
Europe 20 37 90
Asia 28 40 83
Latin America 0 25 300
Commonwealth 12 49 156
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US America 14 8 83
not US America 18% 37% 108%
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English 15 15 93
not English 18% 35% 97%
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SUBSCRIBERS BY COUNTRY
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"Country" of residence is generally indicated by the last component of an
email address. Here, addresses ending {.com .net .org .edu .gov .us .mil}
are allocated to country of residence where known, otherwise to USAmerica.
HES has subscribers in 42 countries, newly in Korea and Yugoslavia.
(One or two others may be concealed in "USAmerica". See Technical Note.)
Next after USAmerica with 253 subscribers (46%) is France with 34 (6%).
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES 42 35 33 24
NUMBER OF PERSONS 547 471 388 200
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group code NOW 1998 1996 1996
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Eur fr France 34 27 23 11
Eur uk UKBritain 28 22 17 7
Eur it Italy 18 16 11 7
Eur de Germany 15 12 9 4
Eur nl Netherlands 15 14 13 10
Eur be Belgium 11 10 9 5
Eur es Spain 10 6 4
Eur pt Portugal 9 9 5 4
Eur se Sweden 8 8 3
Eur ch Switzerland 6 6 3 5
Eur dk Denmark 6 4 2
Eur at Austria 5 4 4 1
Eur fi Finland 3 3 1
Eur pl Poland 2 2 1 1
Eur bg Bulgaria 2 2 2
Eur gr Greece 2 2 1
Eur hu Hungary 2 1 1 1
Eur ie Ireland 1 1 1 2
Eur no Norway 1 1
Eur Russia 1 1
Eur by Belarus 1
Eur yu Yugoslavia 1
AsiaW tr Turkey 3 3 4 1
AsiaW il Israel 3 2 1
AsiaW om Oman 1
AsiaS my Malaysia
AsiaS id Indonesia 1
AsiaE jp Japan 19 17 13 8
AsiaE tw Taiwan 2 2 1 1
AsiaE Hong Kong 1 1
AsiaE cn China 1
AsiaE Singapore 1
AsiaE kr Korea 1 1
Amer br Brazil 6 6 5 1
Amer ar Argentina 3 3 2
Amer mx Mexico 2 3 2 1
Amer cl Chile 2 2 1 1
Amer pe Peru 1 1 2
Amer cr Costa Rica 1
Amer co Colombia
Comm au Australia 29 28 16 6
Comm ca Canada 28 27 21 8
Comm nz New Zealand 7 3 3 1
Comm za South Africa 2 1 1 1
US AMERICA 253 221 205 112
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edu 187 168 168 105
com * 41 33 24 6
net * 19 16 5
org * 4 2 2
gov 1 1 3
us 1 1 2 1
mil 1
* See Technical Note.
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SUBSCRIBERS BY INSTITUTION
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"Institution" is generally indicated by one or two components of an email
address preceding the last component or "country".
Some real institutions with several subscribers may be overlooked here
because of their addressing conventions or because some affiliated persons
subscribe from an outside address. Others without several subscribers may
be included because former students or workers retain their email
accounts.
HES has four or more subscribers with email service at these institutions:
8 Duke U USAmerica <duke.edu>
6 U Amsterdam Netherlands <uva.nl>
6 Massey U New Zealand <massey.ac.nz>
6 Columbia U USAmerica <columbia.edu>
5 G"oteborg U Sweden <gu.se>
5 U Paris 1 France <univ-paris1.fr>
5 Erasmus U Rotterdam Netherlands <eur.nl>
4 U Quebec a Montreal Canada <uqam.ca>
4 U Complutense Madrid Spain <ucm.es>
4 U Illinois Chicago USAmerica <uic.edu>
4 George Mason U USAmerica <gmu.edu>
4 U California Berkeley USAmerica <berkeley.edu>
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TECHNICAL NOTES
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- Each person is counted once, at current residence (or so I guess) for
those with subscriptions from two different countries.
- "US America" counts all persons with addresses ending {.org .com .net
.edu .us .gov .mil} EXCEPT where I know that person resides elsewhere
--which depends on my memory, efforts, and good fortune.
Since I have now asked everyone, it depends mainly on their replies.
- "English" counts persons residing in "US America" as defined here, or
in "Commonwealth" as defined above, or in UKBritain and Ireland. Eg,
French Canada is "English"; Hong Kong and Singapore are "not English".
----Paul
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA
Subscriptions Manager
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