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On Sun, 01 May 2005 22:50:29 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > But only 16 email clients (counting Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox > separately), support SMTP AUTH. But there are more than 1000 different > email client programs. If you go to Microcenter, you can buy several > email client programs for windows, but only one (Outlook) supports SMTP > AUTH. Very interesting how those 16 clients have such a tiny market share, and the other 984+ clients are all just piling up those sales. Do the numbers again, looking at market share rather than numbers. I think you'll find that a bit more than 0.16% of people have an AUTH-capable client. (Hint - what percent of those other 984 clients are half-baked buggy pieces of trash done by one guy who only half-understands how SMTP works? How many of them qualify as abandonware? What sort of development efforts did those 16 have? What are the 3 biggest clients that do *NOT* have AUTH support? What do these numbers tell you?) > Your comparison is precious. Its a classic sort of statistical deception, Pot. Kettle. Color comparison. > at the extreme. With seat belts, there is mandated 100% compliance. With The *point* that you're trying desperately to gloss over to save your position is that if 99% of the target population has something, whether legally required or not, you *CAN'T* introduce something that gets another 2% onboard that weren't before. Incidentally, there's no 100% mandated compliance for seat belts either - there's *plenty* of vehicles still on the road without them (granted, most of these either have 'Antique' tags on them or are painted National School Bus Chrome (National Bureau of Standards Color #1305)...) Attachment:
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