Re: Out of office/vacation messages

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

1.      MTA is unlikely to create a user-agent header (unless it's really
        broken).  Stephen's comments seemed to be directed at MUA where
        the initial statement was about MTA.  I, frankly, agree that no
        self-respecting network operator runs an MTA on M$W, but, I also
        feel there are a lot of network operators that demonstrate little
        self respect by running M$W MTAs.

2.      I do understand that there are a variety of reasons someone may feel
        that they _HAVE_ to run am M$W MUA, and, for those people, I feel
        sympathy and encourage them to join the resistance.

3.      Vacation messages you see would also be from people on nanog-post,
        since, if you aren't on nanog-post, your vacation message will
        get dropped and not be posted to the list.

Owen


--On Friday, January 2, 2004 11:31 AM -0500 Joe Abley <jabley () isc org> 
wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2004, at 10:44, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > >  - run on Windows,
> > > Oops, I see your problem.  No self-respecting network operator runs
> > > any
> > > M$W boxen as an MTA, so Templin is an imposter/troll.
> >
> > This isnt true, the majority run Windows (at least that's what I see in
> > various
> > meetings and from the user-agent headers)
>
> I'm not arguing with your conclusion, but your reasoning is a little
> broken. Only a small proportion of the nanog list membership attend
> meetings, and those that do don't necessarily provide a representative
> distribution (of any kind).
>
> Similarly, the user-agent headers you see are from people on nanog-post;
> I am told the nanog list is much bigger.
>
>
> Joe



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