Hi L.D.,
I hope you had a good vacation. It was sometimes
kind of quiet on the list, however, while you were gone.
I would also say that https is an important feature I
wish Arachne had. What I want to know is what stimulated
you into sending these words of wisdom at this particular
time.
Eric
L.D. Best wrote:
>
>Everyone uses the internet differently.
>
>However, there are some aspects of the internet that *everyone* must
>deal with, regardless of how they desire to use it.
>
>Currently, if I want to change my password on my account with my ISP I
>cannot ask them to do it. I must do so, but to do so I *must* have the
>ability to deal with https ... The same goes for management of my
>domain, and eventual management of my son's domain. We must have the
>ability to deal with secure site https.
>
>If I want to order something from Egghead or Barnes & Noble, or even my
>usual hardware supplier ... I have to be able to deal with a secure
>site.
>
>Those are pretty important things, even if you throw out the on-line
>purchasing.
>
>So for me, and for many, being able to access/use "secure" sites take
>one heck of a big priority over watching steaming video or listening to
>wild music while graphics flash across the screen.
>
>When a person is dealing with a low-end machine, that person should be
>very glad there is even a browser that will function on it! To sit and
>bitch because a DOS browser doesn't give you everything a dozeware
>system would is LUDICROUS ... and makes one look pretty darned foolish.
>
>I'd like one of the new Nikon SLR cameras with wondrous minicomputers
>onboard, automatic film advance [5fps], etc. But I can't afford one.
>So if I can get this used one from a guy I know for a couple a hundred
>bucks, a lower end camera but still good, I'm not going to gripe that it
>doesn't jump through hoops like the $2,500 cameras other people can and
>do use. Get the picture?
>
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