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> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Regis Decamps
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:03 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question
> 
> 
> Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 02:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >> I think that once my internet access becomes functional 
> (even then it 
> >> will just be .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil sites), I will see 
> how well 
> >> the gmane page loads for me. :)  I will use it to read the 
> messages, 
> >> and email to post.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > How do they find out if you're using IE or anything else? 
> AFAIK it is 
> > possible to make Firefox identify as IE (or any other 
> browser for that 
> > matter),
> 
> Yes, you can forge the User-Agent http header.
> 
> But with javascript, only IE will respond positively to: 
> window.RunningIE4 or creating an ActiveX component.
> 
That still does not resolve the issues of a really crappy
bandwidth issue, and a firewall that blocks most sites. :P
Gmane is a .org site, so I can get too it, just slowly. ^_^

I have tried to figure out how to find the gentoo-user specific
pages in gmane, but the interface is not super-intuitive.  I may
give it another try today. :)
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