andrei - better breakdown of statistics for downloads by region, OS, kind of site (academic/large corporate/large financial/etc)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 4:30:15 AM MDT rikki cattermole via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 05/09/2018 10:19 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 1:44:33 AM MDT Suliman via Digitalmars-d
> >
> > wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 07:54:15 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> >>> Stat out of date... Plz update it.
> >>
> >> And once again plz
> >
> > Just FYI, responding to a thread that's several months old is a good way
> > for a lot of folks to not see it. While the forum interface puts the
> > most recent posts at the top, even if it's in an old thread, folks
> > using the newsgroup or mailing list interfaces probably won't see it
> > (and that includes most of the long time contributors). If the thread
> > you want to post in is not recent, your post is much more likely to be
> > seen if you create a new thread.
> >
> > - Jonathan M Davis
>
> What client has that behavior? Because it is displayed quite happily in
> Thunderbird.

Any e-mail client which is displaying e-mails in threads and which sorts
them by date is going to display responses to older threads deeper in the
list (whether that's higher up or lower down then depends on which direction
you've sorted it). I use kmail, but I know that claws-mail has the same
behavior, and though I haven't used it recently, I'm sure that Thunderbird
at least used to work that way. Maybe it now has some sort of mode where it
will bump threads with recent posts to the top, but I've never seen that in
any e-mail client.

Now, if you don't display e-mails in threads (which would make it way harder
to follow the discussions in a mailing list, since they're inherently
threads), then you will end up with recent messages at the top/bottom of the
list, but if you're using threads, they're normally sorted based on the
first message in the thread, not on the most recent message. And from what
I've seen of newsgroup clients (though it's been a while), they acted the
same way. In my experience, bumping threads to the top is a peculiarity of
forum software and not something that anything else does.

- Jonathan M Davis