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