[49771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Wed Jul 10 00:51:35 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:36:43 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: John Palmer <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <024c01c2279b$25f71880$8201a8c0@nipsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:50:52PM -0500, John Palmer wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with MS Outlook express. You need to stem
Surely you must be joking.
> your hostility towards Microsoft and recognize that they are the dominant
> desktop (something like 90%) and you need to get used to it and stop
> fighting.
On NANOG? Are you sure?
So, I took the past three years of NANOG postings, and
grepped them for X-Mailer headers. The sample consists of
20634 postings since June 14th, 1999.
Of these 20634, 10996 didn't have X-Mailer headers and
although some may have this information elsewhere, I'm not
going to bother.
Of the remaining 9638, there are 523 unique X-Mailer
references. I disqualified 24 for being quoted, or random
X-Mailer discussion on NANOG. (X-Mailer discussion seems
to be the ONLY thread that hasn't repeated itself in the
last month.)
The breakdown:
Microsoft 38.71% (not even half the way to 90%)
Mozilla 11.41%
Eudora 10.86%
ELM 6.63%
exmh 5.25%
Web Mail 5.20%
Mutt 4.70%
New MH 3.64%
VM 2.36%
Mulberry 1.90%
Gnus 1.27%
MH 0.96%
If we include the postings with no X-Mailer in the sample,
Microsoft drops to 18.08% of the total -- I'm not aware of any
M$ email product that didn't include an X-Mailer header.
Of course, about the only thing you can conclude from this
is that people with no X-Mailer post more often than anyone else ;)
Still, 18% is a far cry from 90%. Care to try that
again?
--msa
