On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:31:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> >> wrote: >>> From Mark's reply to me: >>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; >>> rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 >> >> My headers say I use Windows, too, but I actually use Linux. > > Actually, no they don't. They don't say anything about your OS, and there > is no User-Agent string. > > Since Mark claims to have not seriously used Unix, that rules out Linux, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and modern Apple Mac. It's just barely possible that > he's still using VMS or Hurd, but really, by a process of elimination the > most likely answer is that he's using Windows.
Heh, I didn't actually check. But if my user-agent _were_ being recorded anywhere, it would make it seem that I use Windows. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list