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Re: [Asrg] The state of the email system



> Looking at the discussions, I'm wondering if someone could point me
> to graphs showing (with a timeline):

> SMTP vs ESMTP traffic
> Mime formatted emails vs non Mime
> Text email vs text+HTML vs HTML only emails
> Character encoding in emails (which ones are used)
> PGP/SMime/Total
> SPF/SenderID/DK/DKIM/Total

> If they don't exist, how can we encourage, groups, email providers to
> give them?

I don't know, but I can keep at least some of those statistics for the
mailers I run (my own) or co-run (at work).

My own mailer stats would border on useless, both because I'm such a
tiny leaf site and because the mail is heavily self-selected.  Work is
larger, but nowhere near big enough to be more than one data point.
It's slightly less certain because I'd have to get approval to release
the data, but I have no real doubt the approval would be forthcoming
for aggregated statistics such as you list.

Assuming I (a) can implement it and (b) get approval to release the
data, what statistics would you like (just the above? more?) and what
useful things could I do with the data?  Send the data to an
aggregator?  Make plots available?

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> Looking at the discussions, I'm wondering if someone could point me
> to graphs showing (with a timeline):

> SMTP vs ESMTP traffic
> Mime formatted emails vs non Mime
> Text email vs text+HTML vs HTML only emails
> Character encoding in emails (which ones are used)
> PGP/SMime/Total
> SPF/SenderID/DK/DKIM/Total

> If they don't exist, how can we encourage, groups, email providers to
> give them?

I don't know, but I can keep at least some of those statistics for the
mailers I run (my own) or co-run (at work).

My own mailer stats would border on useless, both because I'm such a
tiny leaf site and because the mail is heavily self-selected.  Work is
larger, but nowhere near big enough to be more than one data point.
It's slightly less certain because I'd have to get approval to release
the data, but I have no real doubt the approval would be forthcoming
for aggregated statistics such as you list.

Assuming I (a) can implement it and (b) get approval to release the
data, what statistics would you like (just the above? more?) and what
useful things could I do with the data?  Send the data to an
aggregator?  Make plots available?

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