Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Major Taylor Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:24:57 -0700 Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <101aggt$210q$1@dont-email.me> <0kgj3kpss9h9tqjico1ulldtv1ki2hdvdh@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1ETUyaBZr3SuocxaAkocVwrQ+8uIkg9JxwPcZgwEwOeeuJD/LL Cancel-Lock: sha1:g2pH/2iGpb396z7NLH659hvA75s= sha256:oBoO9FiChq3Uzn/tnwB54A0Sfs1VUlQDiICui+80HmQ= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3224 On Fri, 30 May 2025 12:15:03 -0400, Catrike Ryder wrote: >On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:46:24 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >wrote: > >>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:59:05 -0400, Catrike Ryder >> wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:47:36 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>> wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:25:00 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:18:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:36:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Major Taylor made the cover of The New Yorker magazine. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-06-02 >>>>>>> >>>>>>>He deserves more recognition than he commonly gets. >>>>>> >>>>>>An article in an obscure paywalled leftist magazine isn't going to get >>>>>>him much recognition. >>>>> >>>>>Not really "obscure": >>>>> >>>>>"The New Yorker with its 1.23 million subscribers..." >>>> >>>>In the USA, they're rated as 21st, after The American Legion Magazine >>>>and American Rifleman, both of which are also obscure.. >>>> >>>>Actually, all magazines are obscure, nowdays. >> >>>Sorry, forgot the cite; >>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation >> >>The Wikipedia circulation list is only up to date to 2016. See the >>"This article has multiple issues" box near the top of the page. >> >>This list seems a little better: >>"Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation" >> >>The New Yorker is 88 out of 100. Not great, but hardly obscure. > >A million and a half subscribers in a USA population of 3.5 million, >and some of them are in other countries. You're off by factor of 100. The US population for 2025 is about 347 million. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558