On 06/03/10 22:50, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:42 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote: >> Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> writes: >>> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 12:35 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote: >>>> Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> writes: >>>>> Most people use this list via e-mail... >>>> Do you know this to be the case, or is that a guess >>> Scan through a bunch of threads with show-headers. Watch the User-Agent >>> value (set by the senders client). The results become obvious pretty >>> quickly. >>> And it is generally interesting to see the User-Agent mix of a given >>> group of users. >> So... by that criteria do you count me as email reader or nntp reader? > > NNTP > >> Gnus fills in the user-agent field just the same in either case. > > Sure. But Thunderbird, Horde, Squirrel, Google/GMail, Evolution, and > Outlook/OWA are *not* NNTP agents. >
Then how come my Thunderbird could talk with an NNTP server? Directly without going through the bowels of a newsgroup-to-mailing list server. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
