OT: MUAs that suck

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

skip at pobox.com writes:
 > 
 >     Stephen> The only way I know is "vaguely": "a lot".  If you know of a
 >     Stephen> way to achieve higher accuracy, I'd love to know about it!
 > 
 > At least as far as posting goes you could just count the number of messages
 > with X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host headers and compare it to the number which
 > are missing it.

That's a good suggestion, but as it turns out, I don't care about
counting posters.  If they care to be counted, they'll speak up, and
they do. :-)  I care about counting lurkers, who by definition rarely
if ever speak up.  I suspect that lurkers are more likely to be GMane
readers, but I wouldn't count on that (ie, use the % of posters as a
floor for the % of lurkers).