From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 8:31:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB29937B424 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14qzMB-0003Ix-00; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:31:31 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA15723; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:31:29 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 15717; Sat Apr 21 17:31:25 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14qzM5-000F4D-00; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:31:25 +0200 To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detecting mail client capabilities In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:29:53 EST." Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: <57914.987867085@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:29:53 EST, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > I suppose you could extract user agent, system and display information > from the HTTP request--all those javascript-enabled web browsers > volunteer plenty of information--and use the data to make an educated > guess which will be correct 98% of the time. This is what I suggested to my employers, who're insisting that there's some other "e-mail sniffer" that you "send to the client" that isn't what I'm suggesting. :-) > That's the sort of "high technology" I suspect powers the miracle of > modern computing this other company claims to have. But then I may be > wrong and they could have found the Programmer's Stone. In the mass-mailing industry? ;-) Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message