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[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-03, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> 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.

Thunderbird, Evolution and Outlook are all NNTP clients.  Not sure if
that's different than being an "agent".

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