I still find BY COUNTRY useful.  AUTOCAT has subscribers from 46
identified countries, most of whom subscribe from educational institutions
and other organizations, not commercial ISPs.  While the breakdown is not
perfect (e.g., all employees of the WorldBank have the domain
WORLDBANK.ORG regardless of where in the world they are located) it still
helps give me a sense of the geographic distribution of subscribers.

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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Rich Greenberg wrote:

> On Oct 11,  7:53am, Pete Weiss wrote:
>
> } My counter -suggestion is that the (BY COUNTRY option be "retired" -- it
> } no longer serves any useful purpose since country of subscriber origin is
> } masked by ISPs.
>
> My suggestion would be to make it "(BY TLD"  (top level domain).
>
> BY COUNTRY assumes that ".com", ".org", ".net" & ".edu" are all USA
> which is no longer true.
>
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