OT: MTA. (Was) RE: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT a ttachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message

Fri Jul 12 15:02:04 UTC 2002

Folk,

This is like the insurance industry basing rates on auto make/model. While
that is one factor, the much more important factor is the driver. It's the
user, not the MTA, that 'spreads' viri. This problem is not limited to
AOL/MSNites. And if techies are so much better why are there compromised
IIS, Apache, FTP, etc. machines around months and often years after fix
releases?

To paraphrase someone you may be familiar with,

Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept.

I'm much more interested in the message than the medium. :)

-Al Rowland

Just my 2¢, feel free to use your delete key."

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at techmonkeys.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:32 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its
annoying and no one can see your message

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:36:43PM -0700, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:

[snip]
> 	The breakdown:
> 
> 	Microsoft		38.71% (not even half the way to 90%)
> 	Mozilla			11.41%
> 	Eudora			10.86%
> 	ELM			6.63%
> 	exmh			5.25%
> 	Web Mail		5.20%
> 	Mutt			4.70%
> 	New MH			3.64%
> 	VM			2.36%
> 	Mulberry		1.90%
> 	Gnus			1.27%
> 	MH			0.96%
> 
[snip]
> 	--msa

Close, but no banana for you:

26.1534 percent, Pine
20.2465 percent, Microsoft Total (Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, etc)
15.5250 percent, Mutt 7.7120 percent, Microsoft Outlook 7.6985 percent,
Internet Mail Service (Exchange) 5.7049 percent, Eudora 5.2738 percent,
Mozilla (Netscape) 4.7013 percent, Microsoft Outlook Express 3.6102 percent,
Unknown (536 messages were not identifiable) 3.2734 percent, Elm 2.1823
percent, exmh 1.6232 percent, Web Mail 1.4144 percent, Gnus/Emacs 1.2326
percent, Mulberry 0.9160 percent, VM 0.7139 percent, Yahoo! 0.4715 percent,
Hotmail 0.3839 percent, Lotus Notes 0.3166 percent, The Bat! 0.3031 percent,
KMail 0.2896 percent, Apple Mail 0.2694 percent, Pocomail 0.2694 percent, MH
0.2627 percent, Evolution 0.2088 percent, DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway
0.2021 percent, Mahogany 0.1414 percent, Squirrel Mail 0.1414 percent,
CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer 0.1347 percent, mh-e 0.1145 percent, IMail 0.1078
percent, Sylpheed 0.1010 percent, Microsoft-Entourage 0.1010 percent, Mew
version x.xx on Emacs 0.0943 percent, dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 0.0741
percent, Tellurian WebMail 0.0674 percent, tin 0.0674 percent, Forte Agent
0.0539 percent, My Own Email 0.0471 percent, ZMail 0.0471 percent, Mail
User's Shell 0.0404 percent, MailRoom For Internet Mail 0.0269 percent,
stuphead ver. 0.5.3 (Wiskas) 0.0269 percent, MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117)
0.0202 percent, your-mom-encapsulated-in-smtp 0.0202 percent, Vivian Mail
0.0202 percent, PostOffice 0.0202 percent, Mirapoint Webmail Direct 0.0202
percent, Becky! 0.0135 percent, Excite Inbox 0.0135 percent, /bin/bash
0.0135 percent, AeroMail 0.0067 percent, XFMail 0.0067 percent, WorldClient
Standard 0.0067 percent, TWIG 0.0067 percent, The Rodent, go figure. 0.0067
percent, TBBS/TIGER v1.0/PRIMP 1.56p 0.0067 percent, slrn 0.0067 percent,
Opera 0.0067 percent, emacs 20.5.1 (via feedmail 8 I) 0.0067 percent,
Calypso

Total messages: 14847

This resulted from checking X-Mailer, User-Agent, and Message-ID as a last 
resort (yahoo, hotmail, pine..), timespan is from Feb 2001 to now.

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Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203