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[Lie Ryan]

On 06/03/10 22:50, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.
> 

Then how come my Thunderbird could talk with an NNTP server? Directly
without going through the bowels of a newsgroup-to-mailing list server.