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Whiskers wrote:
> 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>.
Only deals with shares, not numbers.
> 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>.
Doesn't list *any* US ISPs, but does show NTL with about 3/4 million and
only in 27th place among the non-US ISPs. So no, this doesn't exactly
support the theory that we see so many NTL numbnutses just because
they're large. And they'd be further down the list if the US ISPs were
included.
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