On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:45AM -0500, DvB wrote:
> oivvio polite <ol1@v10a.com> 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}).*/; $o=$1; $o=~s/ //g;print "$o\n";'|sort|uniq -dc|sort -rn
> >
>
> I believe you can find Pine users by looking at the MessageID (Pine
> doesn't appear to set X-Mailer or User-Agent).
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.
Yeah, I know it was all for fun :)
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