Search Engines/IP restrictions/policy changes

At 3:04 PM -0400 9/7/00, Brandon Ross wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Charles Scott wrote:
>
>>  I don't know what the percentages of old browsers in use across the
>>  network are (perhaps someone can point us to some guess of 1.0
>>  browsers), but I do know that we see some pretty old ones come into our
>>  sites.
>
>That is really the core of the discussion.  It would be quite helpful if
>some large webhoster out there could do a study to determine the number of
>non 1.1 browsers are still in use.  I don't work for a large webhoster
>anymore or I'd find out myself.  All I know is that it's been a long time
>since I've seen anyone using an older browser, and that's amongst my
>non-technical friends and family members, not necessarily geeks that are
>always running the latest and greatest.


On our regular web site <the one that is for the general public, not 
just our users> we are seeing MUCH less than 1% of all browsers 
hitting our site are not http1.1 compliant.  This is true as of about 
3 months ago when we last looked at the data.  We're not a large web 
hoster, but we do have a lot of traffic come through our web site.
-- 

Justin W. Newton
Senior Director, Networking and Telecommunications
NetZero, Inc.