The thought that 5% of our readers are like Kyle Rankin and prefer their e-mail in a terminal window is both scary and fascinating. For most of us, GUI e-mail is where it's at, and Thunderbird grabbed almost half the votes as Best E-mail Client. Granted, the Web-based Gmail came in with 29% of the vote, but it's impressive to see how many people still prefer an actual e-mail program versus a Web site.

• Mozilla Thunderbird 41.1%

• Gmail 29%

• KMail 7.7%

• Mutt 4.8%

• Evolution 4.2%

• Other 3%

• Geary 2.8%

• Claws Mail 1.8%

• Opera Mail 1.3%

• Alpine 1.2%

• Zimbra 1.1%

• SeaMonkey .7%

• Gnus .6%

• Sylpheed .5%

• IBM Notes 9 .4%

• Rediffmail .1%