One more thing that strikes me beyond the international makeup is the fairly evenly distributed gender makeup. My experience is mainly from golf related fora and they are overwhelmingly male dominated. Here is a rich and diverse female active participantship (is that a word?) that in my mind is a contributing factor to the balanced and genteel posting atmosphere.
My first experience, back in the early 80's was with early adapters of PC vs. Apple computers. That is when I realized that religion had move out of places of worship into silicon. Hence, I was kind of apprehensive at first, thinking that it would replay itself between different E-book platforms. The only thing close to that I suppose are the ePub promoters. They seem to be a little more hardline than the rest.
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