From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 15:24:48 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ADMIN: list statistics
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I gathered some list statistics for the subscriber base as of
Thursday, February 3, 1994, 12:00 noon.

657 subscription addresses total. 49 contain the string 'cypher' and
are suspected gateways, either to individuals or large groups, so the
exact amount is extremely hard to pin down.

Here are the subscribers, broken down by top-level domain

 300 com	USA commercial
 204 edu	USA educational
  25 org	USA organizational
  18 ca		Canada
  15 net	networks
  13 us		USA geographical
  10 uk		United Kingdom
   9 uucp	UUCP links
   8 se		Sweden
   7 gov	USA government
   7 au		Australia
   6 fi		Finland
   5 no		Norway
   4 de		Denmark
   3 mil	USA military
   3 it		Italy
   2 fido	Fidonet
   2 za		South Africa
   2 mx		Mexico
   1 ve		Venezuela
   1 su		USSR (er, someone call a NIC)
   1 si		( ? Slovenia ? )
   1 sg		Singapore
   1 nl		Netherlands
   1 jp		Japan
   1 in		India
   1 ie		Ireland
   1 hk		Hong Kong
   1 gb		United Kingdom
   1 fr		France
   1 es		Spain
   1 ee		?
   1 ec		Ecuador

If anybody knows for sure where SI and EE are, I'd love to know.  My
list of ISO country codes is a little old.

Here are the top individual domain names.  We can see who has market
share, at least.

  51 netcom.com
  16 aol.com
   9 mcimail.com
   8 well.sf.ca.us
   7 delphi.com
   6 world.std.com
   5 umich.edu
   5 shell.portal.com
   5 microsoft.com
   5 cleveland.Freenet.Edu
   5 CompuServe.COM
   4 phantom.com
   4 panix.com
   4 gnu.ai.mit.edu
   4 crl.com
   4 apple.com
   3 ucsu.Colorado.EDU
   3 toad.com
   3 prodigy.com
   3 nyx.cs.du.edu
   3 mason1.gmu.edu
   3 engin.umich.edu
   3 ecf.toronto.edu
   3 anon.penet.fi
   3 access.digex.com
   3 CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

Happy lack of trails.

Eric