I hate you all

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:31:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com>
>> 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