Steve Jones wrote:
At 4:38 PM -0500 2/8/02, Lachlan Brown wrote: [...stuff deleted, redundancy possibly avoided, important things potentially left out...]
Please provide the information I requested.
For information about subscribers to air-l, you can send a "who" command - e-mail to air-l-request@aoir.org with the word who in the subject or body of the message.
If anyone bothers to calculate anything based on who command results, please share what you come up with. I've played with it and it's tedious (and with only domain names to go on, a huge chunk of which are .com and .edu, it's dubiously informative). I think we can safely say there are more Americans than residents of any other nation, but there are a large number of nations represented by at least one subscriber. There are at least 35-40 geographic domain names on the subscriber list (including some African domains, Lachlan). Remember also that there is a distinction between aoir members, of whom there are approximately 450, and air-l subscribers, of whom there are nearly 1,000. [plug for joining goes here, there are some benefits that go with membership beyond the sheer glory of non-profit giving]. To those of you who believe we should have members or air-l participants from places we don't, or more from places that we have only a few, or more of any kind of internet researcher for that matter, I urge you to let such researchers know about us and invite them to participate and/or join. We all have to share in the responsibility of making aoir as inclusive as it can be. Broad diversity can't be created by the executive committee no matter how much the 11 of us wish it could, but it might be created by 1,000 list subscribers reaching out to those who aren't here. Toward that end, the exec committee will soon be posting a few e-materials at aoir.org that you can download and use to inform others about our existence. I'll have more about that for you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, believe me, there have been over 200 messages exchanged on the executive committee mailing list so far in February. I think it's a safe bet that the general readership of air-l does not want to be burdened with all of our thought progresses at each moment of their evolution. Nancy _________________________________________________________ Nancy Baym nbaym@ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org