On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:09:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/04/23 22:00 (GMT) Jim Henderson composed:
I use gmane to read the list
Then you're not actually using an email program, you're using a web browser. Ordinary POP accounts used by people running common email software AFAIK don't allow pre-determining what to download or not.
So out of idle curiosity, I ran some statistics on the composition of this list. In my analysis, I used 8,417 posts pulled from gmane. Since gmane munges sender information and doesn't include source IP information, I have only looked at the percentages by user agent. Of the 8,417 messages analyzed, 70% (nearly 6,000) of them were sent using Thunderbird or KMail. The breakdown is as follows: Thunderbird 2987 35.49% KMail 2888 34.31% Alpine 697 8.28% Mozilla 665 7.90% Mutt 527 6.26% KNode 253 3.01% SquirrelMail 149 1.77% Pan 67 0.80% Gnus 47 0.56% Opera 34 0.40% Turnpike 33 0.39% Wanderlust 27 0.32% Spicebird 14 0.17% Internet_Messaging_Program 8 0.10% Microsoft-Entourage 7 0.08% slrn 5 0.06% Mozilla-Thunderbird 4 0.05% Icedove 2 0.02% RoundCube 2 0.02% Loom 1 0.01% As you can see, Thunderbird & KMail users are at least the most prolific. It's hard to profile what everyone is using to read (so this analysis does leave the lurkers out). But perhaps this can help frame the discussion in more concrete terms rather than making assumptions that attachments are a bad thing. At least based on post traffic, it seems most users of this list who post are using programs that can pull POP headers without pulling the message content. Have to run out for a bit, but when I'm back, maybe I'll see if I can break the senders down it a reasonable analysis. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org