Hi David,
I sure don't have problems with you Belgians, although there are a lot of
jokes on Belgians here in Holland. Hehehe, but a Belgian collegue of mine
also tells a lot of Dutchman-jokes...
As you probably understood I'm Dutch. My name is Erwin Bon, I'm 24 years old
and just recently started collecting.
Bye,
Erwin
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: David Monsecour <[log in to unmask]>
Aan: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Datum: dinsdag 24 februari 1998 11:32
Onderwerp: Re: statistics of the list
>Hello everybody;
>
>Let me make clear one thing: Belgium does not belong to the Netherlands!!
>Belgians and Dutchmen are almost like cat and mouse (although I don't have
>any problems with our Northern neighbours, as long as they don't consider
>me the proverbial mouse)
>
>David.
>P.S: How many Belgians resp. Dutchmen are active on this line?=B5
>
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Amy Edwards wrote:
>
>> Current information on the CONCH-L list:
>>=20
>> Total number of subscribers to the list: 340
>>=20
>> Total number of countries represented: 34
>> (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark,
Franc=
>e,
>> Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hongkong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
>> Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
>> Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerlan=
>d,
>> Taiwan, Thailand,USA, Venezuela)
>> *subscribers may be counted as being from a country they do not live in
>> because of their internet service provider's address (i.e. they are
count=
>ed
>> as being from the USA if their email address ends in NET, COM or MIL).
>>=20
>> The four countries with the most subscribers are:
>> USA (258)
>> Italy (9)
>> Australia (6)
>> Netherlands (Belgium)
>>=20
>> Statistics gathered since 11 Mar 1996 (708 days)
>> Total (mail): 7695
>> Average (units/day): 11 (the volume per day has almost doubled)
>>=20
>> During this time period 537 individual subscribers have posted to the
lis=
>t.
>>=20
>> 1491 of the posts came from subscribers outside of the US (19.37%)
>>=20
>> 35 subscribers posted a total of 3555 messages, 46.20% of the messages.
>>=20
>> Amy Edwards, Program Coordinator ------ [log in to unmask]
>>=20
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>> "A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, can never go back to its original
>> dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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