Date:         Wed, 3 May 1995 23:20:20 -0500 (CDT)
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From:         dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu (Sami Dakhlia)
Subject:      Re: German Wants To Join!

Jerry "Atari" Dunham on Germans:

>Then I must ask why Germans are such a large part of the Atari groups

Many Germans own Ataris. When I lived there, I knew about as many people
with Ataris as people with PCs. Almost no Macs. (that was over 4 years ago.)

>I can think of is that this group has a much more social orientation, and
>anyone only interested in the technical aspects of bus ownership has to
>wade through all of that to find what he wants. 

Germans, too, can be social ;)  I must concede, however, that American
sense of humor is not easily accessible. It took *me* a couple of months
to get it--and I've known my American wife for 10 years now.

>Any other theories?

How about conditional probabilities: if a German owns a computer, then
s/he is more likely to be hooked up to a net than an American. 

And: if a German owns a bus, then s/he probably uses it as a utility
vehicle and doesn't find much time to play with e-mail. 

;-)  Sami

dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu