Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message

["Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () samurai sfo dead-dog com>]

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