Jim:

It is interesting that there are no members from Japan, China,
Korea or Taiwan, all MAJOR bonsai countries.

Cheers.

Peter Aradi
Tulsa, Oklahoma


Well, there may BE some. There are 400 and some members using a
"COM" domain, and those are automatically counted as USA people.
They may not necessarily all be from here.

And there are another 200-300 from rec.arts.bonsai (newsgroup),
also members, who were not represented in the breakdown I sent.
We have had a few that post from the Orient (mainland China and
Taiwan) in the past, and all of them were, I recall, users of the
newsgroup. Add to that, the reluctance of so many Japanese to
exercise their English-speaking skills . . .

I can only recall one person who posted from a "JP" address, and
that was only once or twice, several years ago. His English was
very poor and he apologized for it every third line. That kind
of embarrassment doesn't stay long. :-(

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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