BCC Iain - interesting psychologically?
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> >Researchers at Microsoft studied records of 30 billion 
> >electronic
>>conversations among 180 million people in various 
>>countries, according
>>to the Washington Post
>
> I guess using M$ Windows makes me at most 2 links from 
> most people on this
> list ...

If I understand the concept correctly (moot) I think that by 
their definition you are 1 degree removed from all of us.

A local comment on this suggested that due to the internet 
most NZers have only 2 degrees of separation. That seems too 
low to me, but 3 to 4 seems plausible for those who use 
email.

In 1979, just under 30 years ago, an Air NZ DC10 crashed 
into Mt Erebus in Antarctica killing all 257 people on 
board. It was said than that most people in NZ either knew 
somebody on board or knew somebody who knew somebody on 
board. I did. (Close friend of a friend.) I've probably met 
any number of 2 degree removed people since.



        Russell 

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