Re: transition to MASS, was Why we really don't require requirements

["william(at)elan.net" <william@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> > > But  my archive of the ASRG list, ~3000 messages since last November 
> > > sometime, had 556 messages without mime-version.  
> > > ietf-mxcomp (MARID) had 247 out of 4306 since 4/20 without mime-version.
> 
> Ok, I just reran the script from entire downloaded archives for marid and 
> mass and the results are:
> 
> 1. MARID (imc-mxcomp)
> Number of Messages: 5555
> Number of Messages with Mime-Version: 4961
> 
> 2. MASS (imc-mailsig)

Also for comparison of how things were 8 years ago, I just ran the script
again ARIN arhives for rwhois mail list for years 95 & 96:
 Number of Messages: 497
 Number of Messages with Mime-Version: 314

So we moved from 3/5 to 9/10 of emails being mime. And I actually think 
its more then 9/10 for non-technical forum where 99% of users use one
of of main email clients (outlook, aol, mozilla/netscape, eudora) and all
of them add mime-version in there.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@xxxxxxxx