That is interesting considering that some very parochial debates happen on this list. What concerns me is the the fact though that ther are more US than UK subscribers as I believe that the US needs to catch up on some aspects of disability studies such as ditching people first language I am concerned that we are as ever two nations divided by a common language. I wil try in future to bear in mind the make up of this list. Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Priestley > Sent: 01 February 2003 13:06 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: list membership > > > Hi > > for interest, I have provided below a brief summary of the current list > membership. Today, there were 733 people subscribing to this list from at > least 34 countries. This distribution of countries also mirrors fairly > closely the statistics of recent hits on our disability studies website at > Leeds (although unsurprisingly we get a majority of UK hits). It is > interesting to consider what these figures might tell us about the > increasing spread of interest in disability studies in different parts of > the world. > > Any thoughts? > > Mark (list administrator) > > * Total number of "concealed" subscribers: 12 > * Total number of users subscribed to the list: 721 (non-"concealed" only) > * Total number of countries represented: 34 (non-"concealed" only) > > * Country Subscribers > * ------- ----------- > * Australia 61 > * Austria 1 > * Belgium 3 > * Canada 24 > * Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1 > * Costa Rica 2 > * Denmark 2 > * Estonia 1 > * Finland 6 > * France 4 > * Germany 3 > * Great Britain 235 > * Greece 3 > * India 2 > * Indonesia 1 > * Ireland 10 > * Israel 3 > * Italy 5 > * Japan 10 > * Korea 2 > * Malta 1 > * Mexico 1 > * Netherlands 2 > * New Zealand 14 > * Norway 4 > * Singapore 1 > * South Africa 3 > * Spain 1 > * Sweden 5 > * Switzerland 2 > * Taiwan 1 > * Thailand 2 > * Trinidad and Tobago 1 > * USA 304 > * > > ________________End of message______________________ > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > are now located at: > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.