Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 23:28:56 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail trivia Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970206232747.5253A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970206221956.9353J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, John Fieber wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 1997 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > > > In Email, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Your task is to guess the top ten mail clients, and their rank. > > > Extra credit goes to whoever can guess actual percentages. > > > > 1) Unknown > > 2) Elm > > 3) xmh > > 4) slnr :) :) > > Not too many people interested in this trivia I guess. Oh, I was interested, but couldn't make the wildest guess. The FreeBSD crowd has access to too many diverse tools. I thought that mutt would show up, and exmh, too. Anyway, > the mailers that beat a 1% share are: > > 1) Pine 30.92% > 2) Elm 21.37% > 3) Netscape 7.64% > 4) Window Eudora 4.35% > 5) Pegasus 1.71% > 6) exmh 1.32% > 7) Microsoft Mail 1.07% > > Other 5.27% > Unknown 26.35% > > > Well, I already checked the ones in my inbox to make sure I wasn't making > > a laughingstock of myself... After doing that, I'd have to add Mutt and > > Netscape (Mozilla). Fourth and fifth, respectively. OTOH, since this > > Netscape's rank surprised me a bit. Mutt is down at 0.39%, but > would probably be a bit higher if the time frame was limited. > XFmail, at 0.98% almost makes the 1% mark, but slnr comes in at > an undistinguished 0.06%. > > -john > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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