[49779] 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 (Gerardo A. Gregory)
Wed Jul 10 10:09:24 2002
From: "Gerardo A. Gregory" <ggregory@affinitas.net>
To: <up@3.am>, "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:10:48 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Guess no one uses Pegasus Mail anymore,
*reminiscence of the good ol days when that was all that the Department of
Defense used*
----- Original Message -----
From: <up@3.am>
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its
annoying and no one can see your message
>
> 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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