Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:57:49 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jcwells@nwlink.com (Jason C. Wells), fran@reyes.somos.net (Francisco Reyes), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egroups now Yahoo groups ??? cool Message-ID: <14971.8013.207833.341184@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200102021936.MAA12023@usr08.primenet.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1010201223831.8042A-100000@utah> <200102021936.MAA12023@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> types: > I would be really interested in statistics on browsers, to know > what percentage have the "show location" region enabled vs. > disabled, but of course the browser morons aren't really thinking > of useful information like that, and would prefer to instrument > things that let them know your surfing patterns, since their > interest is in pushing advertising to you, not improving the > medium. You can estimate that to better than 10%, by knowing that most users never reconfigure *anything*. I think Netscape and IE have it on by default (but I'm not sure), which would mean that most of the 95% of the browser populace they make up will have it on. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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