Ubuntu is under attack

[Mike Bird]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 20:44, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Assuming they did. Many people just use webmail nowadays.

I happen to own a small ISP.  Only 27.5% of subscribers
have *ever* used webmail, mostly on rare occasions such as
vacation.  Of those few that have used webmail, the median
time since they last used it is 79 days.  Only 4.0% of
subscribers have used webmail in the last week.

98.7% of subscribers have used regular email - mostly
POP-3 and some IMAP.  Of the 1.3% who have not used
regular email, most are wizards with multiple accounts
who disable email in some accounts to reduce spam.

These figures relate only to ISP email accounts.  Some
people also use MSN or AOL or GMAIL.  We don't have
accurate statistics but we know from tech support that
the number is very small.

The facts supporting your assertion please?

> * And potentially unanswerable - one of the UK's biggest ISPs doesn't 
> provide an SMTP smarthost, and blocks outgoing port 25. How is postfix 
> supposed to get important notification mails to their webmail account?

I'm curious if there's any significance to your use of the word
"smarthost" rather than "SMTP server".  If you mean that customers
cannot use Outlook Express or Thunderbird or Evolution to send
emails, would you mind disclosing the name of the ISP?  I have
many relatives in the UK who need to know not to accept any
special offers from such ISPs.

Thanks,

--Mike Bird