[49777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Wed Jul 10 09:56:42 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: <up@3.am>
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020710043643.GB15156@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> 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 ;)
Most of those are likely pine, which you can tell by looking at the
message-id...
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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