Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-04 Thread Rob Allen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], N. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The main reasons that she won't move to Mozilla are: 1. There is no way to file a bookmark straight into the correct folder like you can in NS4.x. F9 to open the sidebar, drag the link into the correct folder. It's not the

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-04 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not all) internet-related Services, it offers many ways for people to attempt to break into your OS X machine. Fortunately, Mac OS X also And what, praytell, are these many ways? Does the article make any

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-04 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Garth Wallace wrote: Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Garth Wallace wrote: 3) UNIX hasn't always been open source. Some versions still aren't. GNU/Linux is open source, so are FreeBSD, NetBSD, and

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-04 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that DeMoN LaG wrote: Rob Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Aug 2001: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Stenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes To follow up (a bit late maybe) on the why I don't use NN/Moz thread: I

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-03 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that DeMoN LaG wrote: Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:Xns90F1D70752D9xjahn@ 204.29.187.152, on 02 Aug 2001: And it came to pass that DeMoN LaG wrote: Rob Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Aug 2001:

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-03 Thread DeMoN LaG
Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:Xns90F1D70752D9xjahn@ 204.29.187.152, on 02 Aug 2001: And it came to pass that DeMoN LaG wrote: Rob Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Aug 2001: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Stenman

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-03 Thread N. Marshall
The main reasons that she won't move to Mozilla are: 1. There is no way to file a bookmark straight into the correct folder like you can in NS4.x. F9 to open the sidebar, drag the link into the correct folder. It's not the same, but it gets the job done.

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-03 Thread Rob Allen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Stenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes To follow up (a bit late maybe) on the why I don't use NN/Moz thread: I suspect a lot of people get irritated about the little tings that actually were in 4.xx but magically disappeared in NN/Moz! I would tend to agree with

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-02 Thread DeMoN LaG
Rob Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Aug 2001: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Stenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes To follow up (a bit late maybe) on the why I don't use NN/Moz thread: I suspect a lot of people get irritated about the

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-01 Thread Garth Wallace
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Been reading up on the subject In MacWorld and MacAddict. Both suggest that Unix has always more unsecure than the Mac Os-9 and lower. One reason they suggest is the fact it been

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-01 Thread Magnus Stenman
still exists in the CVS, and if I wasn't so rusty in C I'd put it back in myself!) /magnus Jerry Baker wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? -- Jerry Baker

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-01 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Mark Anderson wrote: Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Been reading up on the subject In MacWorld and MacAddict. Both suggest that Unix has always more unsecure than the Mac Os-9 and lower. One reason they suggest is the fact it been optimize for use on the inetrnet and because its

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-01 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Garth Wallace wrote: Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Been reading up on the subject In MacWorld and MacAddict. Both suggest that Unix has always more unsecure than the Mac Os-9 and lower. One reason they

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-08-01 Thread hume . spamfilter
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not all) internet-related Services, it offers many ways for people to attempt to break into your OS X machine. Fortunately, Mac OS X also And what, praytell, are these many ways? Does the article make any attempt to enumerate them at all?

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-31 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What's the advantge if I've got to open a Email Client say Eudora, Then I have to open a dedicate News program such as News Watcher (either version), Then I have to open a Web Browser to show web pages. * You get to choose the

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-31 Thread hume . spamfilter
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I am Afraid of OS-X. Unlike 9 and Lower even if a individual likes to poke around on my computer and do some pings. That all they can do. That's an unhealthy delusion. If a person can run arbitrary code on your system without your approval

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Anderson
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Been reading up on the subject In MacWorld and MacAddict. Both suggest that Unix has always more unsecure than the Mac Os-9 and lower. One reason they suggest is the fact it been optimize for use on the inetrnet and because its always been open source. They

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Mircea Romantan
IE renders a mess out of that page . Nice. Done a Print Screen. Do you know other sites IE fails to render ? DeMoN LaG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlfish) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 28 Jul 2001: On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:23:01 -0500, Mr Bluster [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread DeMoN LaG
Mircea Romantan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 30 Jul 2001: IE renders a mess out of that page . Nice. Done a Print Screen. Do you know other sites IE fails to render ? Used to have a screen shot of what IE 5.5 did to a page. It was a CNET

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Mircea Romantan
DeMoN LaG wrote: Mircea Romantan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 30 Jul 2001: IE renders a mess out of that page . Nice. Done a Print Screen. Do you know other sites IE fails to render ? Used to have a screen shot of what IE 5.5 did to a page. It

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Henri Sivonen wrote: -N6xx/Moz lacks many of the features found in NC4.xx. For business and institutional installations, these features are mission critical. (LDAP, .slt free installation, Why is salting a problem? The right way to set up the defaults is to

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread lal_truckee
topposted - sorry - I agree with N. Marshall: Mozilla (even the latest nightlies) newsgroup readers is sadly lacking in simple features, like a basic newsgroup name search engine, like a simple mark groups read, like the ability to organize subscribed groups in a prefered order, like

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Matthew Thomas
Jerry Baker wrote: ... Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at all. I would be interested in working with anyone who wishes to assist with creating a survey for NN4.X users to ascertain why they shun Mozilla/NN6. I think it would be most telling. ... Why

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes profile guesting impossible, or at least very difficult. What's profile guesting? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Profile Guesting I believe, means that a person not owning the computer and go to profile Manager and open as a Guest and use communicator , tempoararily to log on to his/her own account. after the session everything is lost. Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail News still not performing at reliable levels Did tying the browser and the mailnews client together made sense in the

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Pratik
I think its just a typo... What he meant was probably profile guesSing. - Pratik. Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Profile Guesting I believe, means that a person not owning the computer and go to profile Manager and open as a Guest and use communicator , tempoararily to log on to his/her own

[OT] Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they say there is a Unix program called Brickhouse that can plug up all the holes. But I believe I'll wait a while anyway. Actually, Brickhouse is only a GUI configuration tool for ipfw. ipfw ships with OS X. (Yes, the shareware fee is

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Jerry Baker
Matthew Thomas wrote: Why bother? The main reason is blatantly obvious in both cases. In Netscape's case, it's because they haven't yet released a version which could seriously be accused (by anyone other than the Netscape Marketing people) of being release quality. And in the Mozilla

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread JTK
Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail News still not performing at reliable levels Did tying the browser and the mailnews client together made sense in the

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail News still not performing at reliable levels Did tying the browser and the

Re: [OT] Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they say there is a Unix program called Brickhouse that can plug up all the holes. But I believe I'll wait a while anyway. Actually, Brickhouse is only a GUI configuration tool for ipfw. ipfw ships with OS

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread JTK
Jerry Baker wrote: [snip] Do you think that Netscape's releases are going to hurt themselves? That is to say that users will tire of trying each new Netscape release to see if it is finally the one that is of release quality? I seem to remember a story from my childhood, one about a boy

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-30 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
JTK wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail News still not performing at reliable levels Did tying the browser and the mailnews client together

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Bill Lee
Jay Garcia wrote: Jerry Baker wrote: Carlfish wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better. It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface anyway, that someone who

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Bill Lee
Mark Owen wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:16:28 -0600, Jerry Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? -- Jerry Baker I use NN4.77 at home and work (a UK FE College). I haven't yet

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Mr Bluster
Carlfish wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:23:01 -0500, Mr Bluster [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow managed to type: Carlfish wrote: IE renders standards-compliant websites better than NN. This is a simple matter of fact - IE supports far more of the DOM and CSS standards than NN4, even if it is

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Jerry Baker
Jerry Baker wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? -- Jerry Baker Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at all. I would be interested in working with anyone who wishes to assist

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Jerry Baker wrote: Jerry Baker wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at all. Er. Have you *tried* using NN6? I

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Jerry Baker wrote: Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at all. Try reading netscape.public.beta.feedback.* NC4.x users make it very clear why they haven't changed: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Jerry Baker wrote: Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at all. Try reading netscape.public.beta.feedback.* NC4.x users make it very clear why they haven't changed: -N6/6.01 were

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Jahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -N6/6.01 were bug-ridden nightmares, especially Mail and News -Mail News still not performing at reliable levels Did tying the browser and the mailnews client together made sense in the first place? Does it make sense

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-28 Thread Carlfish
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:23:01 -0500, Mr Bluster [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow managed to type: Carlfish wrote: IE renders standards-compliant websites better than NN. This is a simple matter of fact - IE supports far more of the DOM and CSS standards than NN4, even if it is still a light

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-28 Thread DeMoN LaG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlfish) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 28 Jul 2001: On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:23:01 -0500, Mr Bluster [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow managed to type: Carlfish wrote: IE renders standards-compliant websites better than NN. This is a simple matter

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Carlfish
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:32:11 -0600, Jerry Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow managed to type: There are many with differing methods of keeping track of visitors. Even if all of these different sites, and all of the different stats applications they were running, were underestimating

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Carlfish wrote: -snip-- The vast majority of those people still using Navigator 4.x are those who: 1. Received it as part of their ISP package, use it because it was what was given to them, and either do not know how to, or do not know they can change. 2. Use it because of

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Jerry Baker wrote: Carlfish wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better. It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface anyway, that someone who prefered

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread N. Marshall
Jerry Baker wrote: Carlfish wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better. It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface anyway, that someone who prefered to

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread JTK
Jerry Baker wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? Hmmm, that does seem awfully high. Perhaps there are more techincally literate psychos running around than any of us realize. As for investigating why

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Mark Owen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:16:28 -0600, Jerry Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? -- Jerry Baker I use NN4.77 at home and work (a UK FE College). I haven't yet transferred to Moz at home

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Vadir Puovkin Vadir Puovkin
On 27 Jul 2001 18:25:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlfish) wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML bette Please! Thats a matter of your opinion! You mean IE renders frontpage web sites better?

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Carlfish
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:52:56 GMT, Vadir Puovkin VadirPuovkin[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On 27 Jul 2001 18:25:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlfish) wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML bette

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Jay Garcia
Jerry Baker wrote: Carlfish wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better. It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface anyway, that someone who prefered to be a

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-27 Thread Jay Garcia
N. Marshall wrote: Jerry Baker wrote: Carlfish wrote: 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer, despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better. It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface anyway, that someone who

Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-26 Thread Jerry Baker
I see that Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. Is there anyone investigating why? -- Jerry Baker

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-26 Thread peter
Mozilla and NN6 usage is still hovering somehwere just under 0.5%. What is the basis of that estimate? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/