The soc.culture.thai-FAQ

Subject: G.1) What is soc.culture.thai?

The soc.culture.thai newsgroup was inaugurated on April 28, 1991 on the idea of Ayut Nissapa (ayut@ratree.psu.ac.th) proposed in the soc.culture.asean newsgroup. It was intended to be a forum to discuss information relevant to Thailand, Thai people and their culture. Nittida Nuansri (noi@munnari.oz.au) was the coordinator for CFD and CFV.

Soc.culture.thai charter appears in USENET control message to create the newsgroup as:

> From tale@rpi.edu Sun Apr 28 17:50:24 1991
> Control: newgroup soc.culture.thai
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai.ctl
> Path: rpi!tale
> From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
> Subject: newgroup soc.culture.thai
> Message-ID: <jgygknh@rpi.edu<
> Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu
> Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu
> Date: 28 Apr 91 21:50:11 GMT
> Approved: tale@rpi.edu
> Lines: 17
>
> soc.culture.thai is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
> creation by 300:27 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 24 April 1991.
>
> For your newsgroups file:
> soc.culture.thai        Thai people and their culture.
>
> The charter, culled from the call for votes:
>
> Purposes:       - for Thais & any others who are interested in Thai culture
>                   and other aspects such as :
>       - travel information
>       - news from Thailand
>       - political circumstances
>       - Thai food & recipes
>              etc.
>
> Language of discussion is English.

Subject: G.2) Readership statistics

According to the USENET readership poll results of January 1995, soc.culture.thai has an estimated readers of 39,000 worldwide; 66% of all USENET sites carry this newsgroup; and total monthly traffic is 2035 messages or 4.4 MB.

Also in another readership poll conducted for two weeks by Joy Asawalap in February 1994, readership distribution is tabulated as following:

             Cumulative  Cumulative
  GENDER   Frequency   Percent   Frequency    Percent
  ----------------------------------------------------
  F              22      19.0          22       19.0
  M              94      81.0         116      100.0

              Cumulative  Cumulative
 NATION     Frequency   Percent   Frequency    Percent
 ------------------------------------------------------
 Australia         4       3.4           4        3.4
 Finnish           1       0.9           5        4.3
 German            5       4.3          10        8.6
 Netherla          1       0.9          11        9.5
 Non-Thai          1       0.9          12       10.3
 Norway            1       0.9          13       11.2
 Sri Lank          1       0.9          14       12.1
 Swedish           2       1.7          16       13.8
 Swiss             1       0.9          17       14.7
 Thai             75      64.7          92       79.3
 Thai-US           6       5.2          98       84.5
 UK                4       3.4         102       87.9
 UK-Aus            1       0.9         103       88.8
 US               13      11.2         116      100.0

              Cumulative  Cumulative
  DOMAIN   Frequency   Percent   Frequency    Percent
  ----------------------------------------------------
  AU              6       5.2           6        5.2
  BE              1       0.9           7        6.0
  CA              3       2.6          10        8.6
  CH              1       0.9          11        9.5
  COM            12      10.3          23       19.8
  DE              4       3.4          27       23.3
  EDU            61      52.6          88       75.9
  FI              1       0.9          89       76.7
  GOV             1       0.9          90       77.6
  MIL             1       0.9          91       78.4
  NL              1       0.9          92       79.3
  NZ              3       2.6          95       81.9
  ORG             2       1.7          97       83.6
  SE              3       2.6         100       86.2
  TH              9       7.8         109       94.0
  UK              6       5.2         115       99.1
  US              1       0.9         116      100.0

Subject: G.3) Where do I find old articles of soc.culture.thai?

There is an effort at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) in Bangkok to build an archive for soc.culture.thai. A large part of the collection came from Linitda Sooksomstarn, linitda@tlaeng.enet.dec.com, of Digital Equipment Corporation (Thailand) for all articles which arrived at their news server between late March 1992 thru mid October 1993. The archive is located at URL:
ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/archives/soc.culture.thai/
Send old articles by e-mail to news@nwg.nectec.or.th for inclusion. Duplicates will be automatically sorted out.

Gopher search is available at:
gopher://gopher.nectec.or.th/11/wais-sources

World-wide web search is available at the URL:
http://www.nectec.or.th/soc.culture.thai/archives.html

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