Thanks Douglas. I like this. I would like to play with  this on a wider scale 
(listiverse). Do you have a script to scrape out the headers from the archived 
messages or something?

Thanks
John

On 3 September 2019 13:56:12 BST, Douglas Bagnall <[email protected]> wrote:
>This year, up until the seventh of June, Nettime had contributions
>from email clients in the following proportions:
>
>|###################################   35.1% Gmail
>|#################                17.2% Apple Mail
>|##########                        9.9% Thunderbird (Linux)
>|######                            5.6% Unknown
>|######                            5.8% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
>|########                          8.2% XS4all Webmail
>|####                              4.1% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
>|###                               3.4% Mailmate
>|##                                2.2% Mutt
>|###                               2.6% Iphone Mail
>|                                  0.4% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
>|#                                 1.1% Neomutt
>|                                  0.4% Cyrus webmail
>|#                                 0.6% Jaro Mail
>|                                  0.4% Trojita
>|                                  0.4% K Mail For Android
>|                                  0.4% Alpine
>|#                                 0.6% yahoo/aol
>|#                                 0.6% Microsoft Outlook
>|                                  0.0% Thunderbird (Windows)
>|                                  0.2% Mycom Mailer
>|                                  0.0% Claws Mail
>|                                  0.2% Ipad Mail
>|                                  0.2% Webmail
>|                                  0.0% Evolution
>|                                  0.0% Mew (Emacs)
>
>After (and including) the "Nettime is in bad shape" message, until
>(but not including) the "Penalty Shoot Outs" thread, we saw the
>following ratios:
>
>|##################################   34.1% Gmail
>|#########                         8.5% Apple Mail
>|###########                      11.4% Thunderbird (Linux)
>|###############                  15.3% Unknown
>|#######                           7.4% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
>|                                  0.0% XS4all Webmail
>|###                               2.8% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
>|                                  0.0% Mailmate
>|###                               2.8% Mutt
>|##                                1.7% Iphone Mail
>|###                               2.8% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
>|###                               3.4% Neomutt
>|##                                2.3% Cyrus webmail
>|#                                 0.6% Jaro Mail
>|#                                 1.1% Trojita
>|#                                 1.1% K Mail For Android
>|#                                 1.1% Alpine
>|                                  0.0% yahoo/aol
>|                                  0.0% Microsoft Outlook
>|##                                1.7% Thunderbird (Windows)
>|#                                 0.6% Mycom Mailer
>|#                                 0.6% Claws Mail
>|                                  0.0% Ipad Mail
>|                                  0.0% Webmail
>|#                                 0.6% Evolution
>|                                  0.0% Mew (Emacs)
>
>Apple Mail usage halved, Mutt/Neomutt usage doubled. There are nice
>contributions from Claws, Evolution, Alpine, Trojita. XS4All Webmail
>vanishes completely. Thunderbird tops 20% across platforms. The
>identified agents form a fat tail of diversity, while 15% are
>unrecognisable.
>
>With the "Penalty Shoot Outs" thread, Nettime seemed to abandon the
>experiment. Do the user agent ratios revert to early-2019 form?
>
>|############################     27.8% Gmail
>|######################           22.2% Apple Mail
>|########                          8.3% Thunderbird (Linux)
>|###                               2.8% Unknown
>|########                          8.3% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
>|                                  0.0% XS4all Webmail
>|###                               2.8% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
>|                                  0.0% Mailmate
>|###                               2.8% Mutt
>|                                  0.0% Iphone Mail
>|##############                   13.9% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
>|                                  0.0% Neomutt
>|###                               2.8% Cyrus webmail
>|                                  0.0% Jaro Mail
>|                                  0.0% Trojita
>|                                  0.0% K Mail For Android
>|                                  0.0% Alpine
>|###                               2.8% yahoo/aol
>|                                  0.0% Microsoft Outlook
>|                                  0.0% Thunderbird (Windows)
>|                                  0.0% Mycom Mailer
>|###                               2.8% Claws Mail
>|                                  0.0% Ipad Mail
>|                                  0.0% Webmail
>|                                  0.0% Evolution
>|###                               2.8% Mew (Emacs)
>
>Sort of. The data is thin, of course. Apple Mail is back. Outlook.com
>surges on a series of posts from an institutional account. The flurry
>of Mutt and Pine users is petering out. It is nice to see Emacs there.
>
>I don't have *much* to say about the significance of this. It is just
>something I noticed, and (as tends to be the way) the effect seems
>weaker once the data is gathered. But it is interesting that a call
>for new voices flushes out a whole pile of Mutt users. I would say
>that a Nettime [de-]lurker is not going to rescue anyone from 90s
>techno-nostalgia, but that might evoke furious defences of all kinds
>of software of which I am actually quite fond. What should seem weird
>is that one third of us are using Gmail.
>
>Douglas
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