UK Nonlinear News, November 2000
In issue 11 of UK Nonlinear News, Sakse
published a list showing the
break-down of UKNLN subscribers by country. We decided to update the statistics for this issue, and note with pleasure that the UKNLN
subscriber base has grown by 38.9% (1381 versus 994 subscribers). Obviously,
the service provided by UKNLN is still perceived to be useful by the nonlinear
community at large.
| REGION | No countries | No. subscribers | % Change |
| UK | 1 | 458 | +16.8 |
| Rest of Europe | 30 | 384 | +46.6 |
| North America | 3 | 204 | -12.4 |
| South America | 6 | 19 | -20.8 |
| Asia | 15 | 83 | +84.4 |
| Pacific | 2 | 51 | +34.2 |
| Africa* | 4 | 23 | NA |
| Caribbean* | 1 | 1 | NA |
| Unknown* | NA | 158 | NA |
| Total | NA | 1381 | +38.9 |
( * These categories were not present in the previous analysis. )
There are several amusing points to note. A lone subscriber from Cuba forced
the creation of a Caribbean category, since it seemed
politically insensitive to include Cuba as part of North America. While most
regions show healthy growth, there is an apparent
drop in both North and South American subscribers. The main reason for the
drop in North America is that .com and .net subscribers have been
moved to the Unknown category, while previously they were classified under
North America. There are 2 possible explanations for the drop in
South American subscribers. First, in the previous analysis, only 2 countries
were listed under North America, which suggests that Mexico
was misclassified as belonging to South America. Second, the de novo
creation of an Africa category in this analysis also suggests
the possibility that all
African countries were misclassified as South American the last time round!
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