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Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Jun 3 08:50:59 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:42 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> writes:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 12:35 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote:
> >> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> writes:
> >> > Most people use this list via e-mail...
> >> Do you know this to be the case, or is that a guess
> > Scan through a bunch of threads with show-headers.  Watch the User-Agent
> > value (set by the senders client).  The results become obvious pretty
> > quickly.
> > And it is generally interesting to see the User-Agent mix of a given
> > group of users.
> So... by that criteria do you count me as email reader or nntp reader?

NNTP

> Gnus fills in the user-agent field just the same in either case.

Sure.  But Thunderbird, Horde, Squirrel, Google/GMail, Evolution, and
Outlook/OWA are *not* NNTP agents.

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