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On 2006-06-30, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ponder wrote:
>> Hiya Whiskers.
>>
>> In <news:vssdn3-vns.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
>>
>>> OK, the CD theory doesn't hold water. Something must draw the
>>> technically-challenged NTLers to this group though ~:-{>>>
>>
>> In all honesty I just think it's a pure numbers thing. There are so
>> many people on ntl than other ISPs... and this group is the first
>> listed on the servers' newsgroup list.
>
> Al lot of the UK may use it, but the UK is a small and strange little
> kingdom -- I'd think one or two of the larger ISPs in the US might equal
> them in membership just based on overall population size. And we don't
> see the constant ignoramushood by those ISP's members that we do NTLs.
> And this group would be on the top of any ISP's Usenet list.
>
> Can anybody find a creditable list of top worldwide ISPs ranked by
> membership? I'm afraid I could not.
Not worldwide, but there's this for the top 22 in the USA
<http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa.html>.
This survey is more global, but it dates from 2004 since when there have
been a number of mergers and collapses in the UK
< www.jetcafe.org/~npc/isp/global.html">http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/isp/global.html>.
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