On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:27:37PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > The actual mail server can be determined from the IP address, the mail > client from the MUA string (in a majority of cases), third party > gateways (identifiable by the IP address) do a certain amount of > obscuring of the originating mail/news server and news/email client. > > > > News/Mail preference of total 18145 messages: email 14646 80.7% | > > Gmane 3327 18.3% | Misc-NNTP > > Gmane means the message comes from gmane, etc.al. It is the best guess by looking into header field such as 'X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host', 'Injection-Info', and 'NNTP-Posting-Host'. so there were 3327 messages came from gmane.
> Do you have any figure for point of origin ie. of gmane, google groups > and (you don't appear to have covered New Generation and Bob's > favourite, Nabble) what percentage used the gateway's web interface? assuming User-Agent string 'Loom' is the gmane web interface, there are around 16%(14 of 85) gmane users post via web. However, only 2.5% messages(82 of 3327) from gmane were posted via web. The news/mail user count is not always accurate because user sometimes switched to other ways of posting, so does the mua count. There were only 3 messages with 'X-Nabble-From' header, they must from Nabble. I didn't see any message from New Generation. -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
