On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:15:20 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > So? NNTP is the living dead. Time to let it go.
So you say. I think the millions of posts on Usenet say different. According to Wikipedia, the average number of all text posts in the Big-8 newsgroups is 1,800 new messages every hour. That excludes binary groups, where the amount of traffic is much, much bigger. Sure, a lot of those 1,800 posts are spam, but the spammers wouldn't waste their time if they didn't think there were people still on Usenet. > Most people use this list via e-mail, How do you know? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just making it up? In a later post, you claimed the evidence is: "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." Or in other words, a non-random selection of posts followed by an error- prone and subjective test. I've picked seven posts from this thread, from seven different users, and I get these User Agents: User-Agent Count Mail or News? none 1 unknown Mozilla/5.0 1 Both Gnus/5.13 2 Both G2/1.0 2 Web (interface to News) Thunderbird 1 Both I happen to know at least one of the Gnus users is using News, so that's 1 definite News, 2 Web, 4 either News or email, and no definite email. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
