[idn] Sendmail usage estimates

[D. J. Bernstein]

Maynard Kang writes:
> How about servers which are running sendmail and will fall over and
> die when they see UTF-8? According to their site, Sendmail "handles an
> estimated 75 percent of the Internet's email traffic".

That estimate is completely bogus. It's a wild misrepresentation of some
obsolete information that was once on the Sendmail Inc. web pages: viz.,
that more than 75% of the Internet's SMTP servers were running Sendmail.

(The current web pages also have obsolete information, but I don't see
the wild misrepresentation. Where exactly did you get the quote?)

See http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html for the complete story.

---Dan