Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.018 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'string.': 0.05; 'linux,': 0.07; 'user-agent:': 0.09; 'windows,': 0.09; '(windows': 0.16; 'check.': 0.16; 'freebsd,': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'recorded': 0.16; 'unix,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'rules': 0.22; 'headers': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'linux.': 0.31; 'os,': 0.31; 'really,': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'subject:all': 0.32; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; "he's": 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'possible': 0.36; 'being': 0.38; 'apple': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'most': 0.60; 'reply': 0.66; 'actually,': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.87; 'anywhere,': 0.93; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=r4M+kLTcAVRWlipvA4mAT4P+vZlBshxxHMy6/EgFPKg=; b=qpKEzA9v+ZzCgDBRGF6o8vd7/zCO8N0OLdQM6aGJnr7ALXr6DMIX6Bpq/iGsir2viw TS3iMklVj3H2CfxhCCAefMxLgY/griGwKT8E1r1ja9WKJd15PxXxwCxyVcywgmvHUBFr NJDuZsCA+Kiso8bW0S7I46V/zLUb2VPm26KTKFO09GodJFU+AA36nSSv1nlqdETe4p6z 35JOJ5VAQD7C0dVUfYX/2PG8Ma13sY7XHzC693OrHYRSR5aDp1//JDEgzBYUSOBcKbTs BJa85oAH56mzPSRW5nbyQJ4IzFDmMFPEUf5bayN0q35fYyo3iM/2SGQJInAGC22Oo2eV Vpig== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.67.164 with SMTP id o4mr64232vdt.42.1365560071023; Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:14:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5164c7cd$0$30003$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <64d4fb7c-6a75-4b5f-b5c8-06a4b2b5d0cb@googlegroups.com> <95b2bc1c-57a2-48c9-85ea-cf1004c9e26c@googlegroups.com> <5160cc44$0$29995$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5164a26e$0$30003$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5164c7cd$0$30003$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:14:30 +1000 Subject: Re: I hate you all From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1365560074 news.xs4all.nl 2595 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53007 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:43243 On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:31:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Walter Hurry >> wrote: >>> From Mark's reply to me: >>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; >>> rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 >> >> My headers say I use Windows, too, but I actually use Linux. > > Actually, no they don't. They don't say anything about your OS, and there > is no User-Agent string. > > Since Mark claims to have not seriously used Unix, that rules out Linux, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and modern Apple Mac. It's just barely possible that > he's still using VMS or Hurd, but really, by a process of elimination the > most likely answer is that he's using Windows. Heh, I didn't actually check. But if my user-agent _were_ being recorded anywhere, it would make it seem that I use Windows. ChrisA