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From: "Bruce Martin" on 10 Mar 2010 07:02
Hey Everyone:

Germany and Switzerland?

How about this Guy from Canada who lurks in the background? He speaks 3
languages and uses Oo in a machine that boots Win XP (2 versions) and Fedora
12 (Linux) and shares about 4.24 Tb. Of data! -Just because Canada has such
a low population density!! Over here, mobility is a big thing too.

If a team of businessmen, for example, needed to go from Montreal to
Toronto, and take their car or the train, they would probably like to have
their laptops running on the way.

The ride from Montreal to Toronto will preoccupy them for at least 6 hours
(if they avoid the rush hours) and the train about 4 or 5 (depending on
which run.) Some of the train cars are equipped with Wi-Fi also. (Add to
that a lot of students.) In eastern Canada, Rogers provides a lot of that
type of service. In Western Canada, I hear more of Telus. If you are too
remote for cable or DSL, there is satellite service ($$$).

So much for now - I have to go about 40 Km North to a client today, so I am
getting ready.

Bruce M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Jensen [mailto:drewjensen.inbox(a)gmail.com]
Sent: March 9, 2010 11:56 PM
To: discuss(a)openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] [unsubscribed posters] which has nothing to do with
Re: Annoying problem

Nino Novak wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 22:45, Drew Jensen wrote:
>
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Before jumping in with opinions could I ask a question, please.
>>
>> OO.o sprouts more then just the English users ML, it has a German
>> list, French, and others - yes.
>>
>> Do these other MLs also experience these problems?
>>
>
> Yepp.
>
> German users-List: (overall mail frequency: 24/day [1])
>
Hello Nino,

Thanks for that.

Really! - 24 emails a day.

The germanophone ML, so let's just make it easy
and figure Germany, Austria and Switzerland as
the locales from which the majority of the list user
pool comes from.

Pulling a number from the air let's say 12.5 million
users, give or take. (sound about right?)

For that user community there has been active
support from at least 2 web forums for quite
a while, Also a strong support base from
independent vendors in those countries.

For the anglophone ML then Australia, UK, US
let's say 28 million users in the pool, give or take.

Run the numbers for the list
Feb 2007 - Jan 2008 - 85/day
Feb 2008 - Jan 2009 - 56/day
Feb 2009 - Jan 2010 - 29/day

2007 to 2008 change could be , I suppose, the
user.services forum coming on-line, oooForum
has remained active giving the en user pool
2 web forums, matching the de community,
and 56 emails per/day seems about right then
ratio wise.

2009, I don't know.

Best wishes,

Drew

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