On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 07:32 AM, Jan Dobrucki wrote: > Greetings, > I've been reading the list for a while now, and what I find annoying > is that there are mostly American news and little about what's > happening in Europe. As little as I respect America, America is not > all of the world. Come on Cypherpunks from Europe, make your presence > noticed! >
As you note in your last sentence, the lack of discussion of European (*), or Asian, or African news is for Europeans or Asians or Africans to fix. (* As for Europe, we have a fair amount of news from the U.K. Not all consider it part of Europe, though.) In past years there were several people from Germany, Holland, Sweden, etc. on the list. Someone from France (Damien G.) even discovered a major security bug. So, Europe has been well-represented. (Not much now, but, then, the volume of CP postings is way down...the substantive ones, at least.) Oh, and I think there's a guy from Australia still posting on this list. The most obvious reasons there are vastly more articles dealing with U.S.-centered developments are: 1. This is where the vast majority of the subscribers are living. Why more people in Europe are not interested in these issues is something one should ask Europeans about. 2. Physical meetings in the Bay Area are still happening, drawing between 20 and 40 persons per meeting. Some fraction of them are regular posters here. 3. The U.S., like it or not, remains the center of much that is technological, with all of the major PC and computer companies, most of the major software companies, and so on. You are of course welcome to write articles. This is the best fix for "How come there are more articles on X?" complaints. By the way, "local news" is not the real purpose of the list, in my opinion. Getting news is best done via browsers and the many hundreds of news outlets. --Tim May "The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." -- Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789
