On Sun, 01 May 2005 22:50:29 EDT, Dean Anderson said:
But only 16 email clients (counting Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox separately), support SMTP AUTH. But there are more than 1000 different email client programs. If you go to Microcenter, you can buy several email client programs for windows, but only one (Outlook) supports SMTP AUTH.
Very interesting how those 16 clients have such a tiny market share, and the other 984+ clients are all just piling up those sales. Do the numbers again, looking at market share rather than numbers. I think you'll find that a bit more than 0.16% of people have an AUTH-capable client. (Hint - what percent of those other 984 clients are half-baked buggy pieces of trash done by one guy who only half-understands how SMTP works? How many of them qualify as abandonware? What sort of development efforts did those 16 have? What are the 3 biggest clients that do *NOT* have AUTH support? What do these numbers tell you?)
Your comparison is precious. Its a classic sort of statistical deception,
Pot. Kettle. Color comparison.
at the extreme. With seat belts, there is mandated 100% compliance. With
The *point* that you're trying desperately to gloss over to save your position is that if 99% of the target population has something, whether legally required or not, you *CAN'T* introduce something that gets another 2% onboard that weren't before. Incidentally, there's no 100% mandated compliance for seat belts either - there's *plenty* of vehicles still on the road without them (granted, most of these either have 'Antique' tags on them or are painted National School Bus Chrome (National Bureau of Standards Color #1305)...)