The sample was from what was left at night after my staff had cleared most of
the day's incoming email. It was done at the spur of the moment when Steward
wanted to know the breakdown of mailer type.
> If this is the case then I believe that the results may be artificailly
> skewed in favour of Netscape and, to some extent, MS Explorer.
The population was from the members of mailling lists involve in
international import/export trade, most probably not from students,
public servants or IT professionals (though there are a few computer
hardware traders in there).
> who either care to copy&paste the email address from one of these into
> their usual MUA (in my case Pine). It is much more convienient to just
> click, except when using PGP signatures/encryption or the like.
Most probably the triggers for sending the emails were not from web pages.
Very few of them bother to attach pictures of the items for trade, which
ranges from shipping container load of canned food, million tons of
sugar to some exotic things like a MIG 27 (without armament), 10 years old
Russian aircraft carrier for scrap, 20 aging 747's, etc.
The responses most probably will be private involving pricing, delevery
detail, etc, and they will not posted via the mailling lists.
It seems that the browsers have achieve their intended objective of
becoming the generic front ends, at least for the above sample.
> | Email: dmiller@vitnet.com.sg (PGP and MIME ok)
Only Mutt can do PGP/MIME :)
David Chia,
GIFT Foundation.