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From: Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
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Subject: Re: Information shown by User-Agent header item
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 01:00:48 +0200
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David E. Ross wrote:
> On 5/28/2025 8:59 AM, dillinger wrote:
>> On 28/05/2025 12:26, Wolfgang wrote:
>>> By default, the header item "User-Agent" shows "Mozilla Thunderbird"
>>> only without giving any further information. Since in many cases, it
>>> would be helpful to see some more information, e.g. the version
>>> number and the operating system, I should like to recommend
>>> performing the following steps for making the User-Agent header item
>>> more verbose:
[..snip..]
>>> Now, the User-Agent header item has become actually verbose. On my
>>> computer, it says:
>>>
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101
>>> Thunderbird/138.0
>> 
>> FYI, this is a privacy feature, it only changes how your information is 
>> shown on other people's computers, not how other people's information is 
>> shown on your computer.
>> 
> 
> Windows 7
> Thunderbird 52.9.1
> 
> When I send a message from my account at one host to my account at a
> different host, I see the complete user agent.
> 
> When someone posts a message asking about a problem, I wish their
> complete user agent was available.  It helps to diagnose the problem or
> to decide that I cannot help because it is under Linux or a more recent
> version of Thunderbird.

If a user has a problem with his software, he should *always mention* the
version of this program in the body of the posting, or at least in the
subject line when asking in the usenet.
No one who needs help should expect that helpful people are poking around
in the headers to get detailed information. That's a question of respect.
So in general it's not worth to offer the whole (true) User-Agent-Header.
[See mine.. :-P ]