From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 2 12:58: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3E6D37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 33375 invoked by uid 100); 2 Feb 2001 20:57:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14971.8013.207833.341184@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:57:49 -0600 (CST) To: Terry Lambert Cc: jcwells@nwlink.com (Jason C. Wells), fran@reyes.somos.net (Francisco Reyes), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egroups now Yahoo groups ??? cool In-Reply-To: <200102021936.MAA12023@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200102021936.MAA12023@usr08.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert types: > I would be really interested in statistics on browsers, to know > what percentage have the "show location" region enabled vs. > disabled, but of course the browser morons aren't really thinking > of useful information like that, and would prefer to instrument > things that let them know your surfing patterns, since their > interest is in pushing advertising to you, not improving the > medium. You can estimate that to better than 10%, by knowing that most users never reconfigure *anything*. I think Netscape and IE have it on by default (but I'm not sure), which would mean that most of the 95% of the browser populace they make up will have it on. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message