| From: Michael Polak
| To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
| Cc:
| Sent: 29 May, 2000 08:30 PM
| Subject: RE: What are most common problems for newbies
| ?
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| >
| > The default "show me terminal window when
| dialling" should be Off
| > (for me
| > I don't have success when it is On ...).
|
| Because it requires user interaction - pressing F7
| key when PPP
| characters
| star to appear ;)
|
Gee! And I have been trying Alt-P, instead! ;-)
Actually, I have just figured out the problem :
My ISP only seems to give about one second for PPP
negotiation (directly after the modem's connect
message), after which the ISP hangs up! So, for
a newbie, this situation should be avoided by
default, with "show me terminal window" = Off.
| > The default "Send Referrer Information" should
| also be Off (this
| > causes some
| > redirection stuff to not work for me ...).
|
| So this is rather bug in implementation of referer,
| than sign that referer
| should be turned off. This is interesting note -
| mayybe some of
| redirrection problems I used to associate with cookies
| were in fact
| referer related ?
|
| (do you want to say, that iit works for you WITHOUT
| referer enabled ?!)
Yes, most redirection stuff works for me, if I disable
referrer (although I suspect that redirection MIGHT
have something to do with those "shtml" pages that
crash Arachne for me?)
| > One MAJOR problem for newbies is that, when first
| installing
| > Arachne, the
| > user MUST exit after initial configuration - if
| instead, a dial is
| > attempted at
| > this point, Arachne crashes severely and corrupts
| the directory!
|
| It won't really crash if you have enough memory, but
| you are right., that
| it should ask user to run setup.bat manualy if there
| is not enough memory.
| Or maybe rather always. or maybe "Finish setup" should
| exit if it is 1st
| time setup ?
I have 622K (637k) free conventional memory ... Surely
you can't be suggesting I need MORE ??? ;-)
Best regards,
Joe.
