Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:12:33PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > client = msg.getheader("X-Mailer") or msg.getheader("User-Agent") or > "unknown" You're missing X-Newsreader - some people use newsreaders, which might be sending that. -- Colin Watson [EM

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On 20 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote: JH> I wrote: JH> > Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? JH> JH> Johnny writes: JH> > Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses JH> > that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread. JH> JH> We

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? Johnny writes: > Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses > that need Outlook can not use Debian to spread. Well, sure. Everyone knows that viruses only work on Windows, so of c

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread oivvio polite
Also sprach Tony Crawford: > Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline > leaves out those of us with "Debian" in the first "Received" > stamp. > > T. Could you elaborate on that? Is there a way of discriminating subscribed posters from unsubscribed posters by watching the h

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread oivvio polite
Also sprach Nathan E Norman: > Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... > if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each > with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users > standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script do

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Tony Crawford
oivvio polite wrote (on 19 Sep 2001 at 11:27): > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded > good. This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells > it all: > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: (.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>Tim Moss writes: >> Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were >> sent by viruses and not actual people. > >Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? Tim said _Outlook_ messages. Since Outlook does not run on Debian, viruses that need

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Tim Moss writes: > Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were > sent by viruses and not actual people. Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Tim Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were > sent by viruses and not actual people. That'd be what, about 90%? ;) (couldn't resist...) Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -C

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Tim Moss
Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script doesn't account for this. Well then,

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:45AM -0500, DvB wrote: > oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: > > > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: "

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread DvB
oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: > (.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14}).*/; $

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake oivvio polite on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:27AM +0200: > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: lol ! Somebody's overdosing on SlashDot :-) Romain -- If you're going to d