On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> I get the impression, though, that a lot of "the faithful" don't read /.
> much since the s/n ratio got so bad. Most of the comments seem to be
> newbies. The informal survey of mail headers done a while back by someone
> on this list may be more telling of use among Mutt's "target" user base.
i made a quick grep | awk | sort | uniq -c ... survey on a few of my
maillist archives:
shortcommings:
i used the following line to count the header:
grep X-Mailer: listfile | awk '{ print $1, $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
that is the header is cut of after the first word, so Windows,
Internet and others may be different mailers counted as the same
pine does not use the X-Mailer: header, so i had
to revert to the Message-ID, which fortunately starts with <Pine
people who post more are overrepresented...
below the counts i list how many of the headers where actually found,
to help you relativize the numbers a bit...
====
our local linux user group at the technical university in vienna
(more than 350 members)
101 X-Mailer: XFMail
111 X-Mailer: Z-Mail
130 X-Mailer: KMail
232 X-Mailer: Microsoft
323 X-Mailer: Internet
350 X-Mailer: Windows
497 X-Mailer: exmh
2345 X-Mailer: Mutt
2553 X-Mailer: ELM
2980 X-Mailer: Mozilla
5215 Message-ID: <Pine
36 counts of User-Agent:
10226 counts of X-Mailer:
11228 counts of Message-ID:
17883 counts of From
====
Window Maker:
207 X-Mailer: Windows
211 X-Mailer: Internet
409 X-Mailer: VM
412 X-Mailer: exmh
445 X-Mailer: Microsoft
475 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM
490 X-Mailer: ELM
694 X-Mailer: Gnus
946 X-Mailer: XFMail
3071 X-Mailer: Mutt
4103 X-Mailer: Mozilla
6007 Message-ID: <Pine
7 counts of User-Agent:
12105 counts of X-Mailer:
16007 counts of Message-ID:
22683 counts of From
====
bugtraq
171 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM
177 X-Mailer: Internet
256 X-Mailer: ELM
316 X-Mailer: Mozilla
321 X-Mailer: Microsoft
359 X-Mailer: Mutt
1259 Message-ID: <Pine
19 counts of User-Agent:
2077 counts of X-Mailer:
4152 counts of Message-ID:
4146 counts of From
====
and for the fun of it, mutt:
1 X-Mailer: AtDot
1 X-Mailer: Magnus
1 X-Mailer: TFS
1 X-Mailer: Urbi
1 X-Mailer: VM
1 X-Mailer: XFMail
1 X-Mailer: mutt
1 X-Mailer: www.eGroups.com
2 X-Mailer: Novell
2 X-Mailer: Z-Mail
2 X-Mailer: exmh
3 X-Mailer: dMail
4 X-Mailer: Internet
4 X-Mailer: Mew
5 X-Mailer: Gnus
5 X-Mailer: MailCity
6 X-Mailer: Forte
7 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM
9 X-Mailer: Windows
18 X-Mailer: ELM
23 X-Mailer: Microsoft
26 X-Mailer: Mozilla
3175 X-Mailer: Mutt
59 Message-ID: <Pine
370 User-Agent: Mutt
370 counts of User-Agent:
3297 counts of X-Mailer:
3672 counts of Message-ID:
3779 counts of From
===============
greetings, martin.
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