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    From meff@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 8 07:19:56 2022
    Has anyone compiled User-Agent statistics to see wich clients are in
    use? If so I'd be interested in seeing them.

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  • From Ralph Fox@21:1/5 to meff on Wed Jun 8 21:04:10 2022
    On Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:19:56 GMT, meff wrote:

    Has anyone compiled User-Agent statistics to see wich clients are in
    use? If so I'd be interested in seeing them.


    FWIW, User-Agent statistics compiled in 2007: <https://web.archive.org/web/20070925082306/http://www.newsreaders.com/link/clientstats.php?top=20>


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    Kind regards
    Ralph

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    shule þe on elde folewe, boþe an eve ant amorewe, ant bue þe fol couþe. Whose yong lerneþ, olt he ne leseþ, quoþ Hendyng.

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to meff on Wed Jun 8 09:43:39 2022
    On Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:19:56 GMT, meff wrote:

    Has anyone compiled User-Agent statistics to see wich clients are in
    use? If so I'd be interested in seeing them.

    As a part of a project that I started at the beginning of the year where
    I retrieved and archived a huge chunk of the Usenet from 2003-2022, I had
    a bunch of newsgroup files sitting around on my NAS from the alt.*
    hierarchy. In total, there are 348238 articles in this small collection spanning several years. Here are the top 20 User-Agents that I pull from
    those articles:

    108950 User-Agent: G2/1.0
    54402 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv
    51370 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv
    24922 User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
    22672 User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.05
    12089 User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4
    6741 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv
    5346 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv
    4488 User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24
    3266 User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
    2755 User-Agent: Unison/2.2
    2507 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv
    2352 User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41
    2164 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv
    1963 User-Agent: GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release
    1904 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv
    1835 User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.00.32.1200
    1745 User-Agent: Xnews/2009.05.01
    1732 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv
    1684 User-Agent: [User-Agent blank]

    Google Groups is only second to the different versions of Mozilla (Thunderbird/Seamonkey).

    Here is the grepped data that I pulled: https://github.com/tgeek77/UsenetReport/tree/main/User-Agents

    User-Agents.txt is the unsorted raw data.
    user-agent-count.txt is the sorted and counted data.

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Wed Jun 8 13:09:10 2022
    Jason Evans wrote:

    1963 User-Agent: GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release

    OMG

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 8 16:57:55 2022
    On Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:43:39 GMT, Jason Evans wrote:

    If anyone really wants it, I can do a broader search for stats but that
    will be more like a weekend project because it's going to take time
    grokking through 1TB of Usenet records.

    BTW, if anyone is interested, here are the commands that I used:

    ## search all files and grep out User Agents
    grep User-Agent newsgroup.mbox > User-Agents.txt

    ## Remove extra fields, sort, count unique entries, then sort by number

    cat User-Agents.txt | cut -f 2-3 -d ':' | \
    sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > User-Agents-sorted.txt

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  • From Daniel Goldsmith@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Thu Jun 9 21:22:06 2022
    On 2022-06-08, Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:19:56 GMT, meff wrote:

    Has anyone compiled User-Agent statistics to see wich clients are in
    use? If so I'd be interested in seeing them.

    22672 User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.05
    3266 User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
    1745 User-Agent: Xnews/2009.05.01

    Xnews? whaaaaaat??!?

    That's genuinely amazing to me. I used (and loved) Xnews eleventy
    million years ago, using hamster to create local newsgroups, but
    I stopped when I managed to get my life off Windows.

    Genuinely pleased and surprised that it is still a thing™
    --
    dgold <news@dgold.eu>

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Daniel Goldsmith on Thu Jun 9 18:06:59 2022
    On 6/9/22 2:22 PM, Daniel Goldsmith wrote:
    That's genuinely amazing to me. I used (and loved) Xnews eleventy
    million years ago, using hamster to create local newsgroups, but I
    stopped when I managed to get my life off Windows.

    I've seen people using things like Wine to run (formerly?) Windows only programs on Linux and / or macOS.



    --
    Grant. . . .
    unix || die

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