Something about me is that I am one of those enthusiastic persons in the world community who strongly believe that Arachne is one of the most exciting hits to come along on the computer screen. One of the greatest. However, I am anticipating that the default tagline which many of us continue to use, "This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client.", might create a problem for me. How might it create a problem? Well even though I have just admitted that, from my point of view, Arachne is so exciting and the greatest or in other words "the Ultimate"--I have decided to use strategy of changing "the Ultimate" to "the Versatile". Let me explain... I periodically am writing emails to people who just came of computer age in the era of Microsoft Windows 95/98 and 266+ MHz MMX Intel Pentiums. These people are like 'flat earthers', completely unaware that a whole BIG ENORMOUS MULTIFACETED AND HIGHLY SKILLED world of computing and computer technology IS in existence outside of their very small world view (and has been in existence for many years pre dating their belated introduction into computing). Perhaps, at this point in this message, you might be starting to guess that I want to avoid having to go up against 'a brick wall' when trying to explain to these people of lesser exposure, how anything could be more "ultimate" that Microsoft's Windows and 600 MHz Pentiums running MicroSoft's Office 2000 and Internet Explorer 5 point whatever. [I've just coined a term for that ensemble: "The ultimate highly capable straitjacket."] Therefore, as of today I've changed my default tagline from "... ... The Ultimate ..." and to "This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet Browser". You see, I can explain/show to these people in 60 seconds or less, how and why Arachne is so "Versatile". I can very very quickly show them several examples which will be technically simple enough for them to immediately understand: "Look you just hit one key, F5, and Arachne instantly toggles among 3 very different screen layouts." AND "Look you just hit one key, F6, and Arachne views the HTML source of the currently displayed page, say for instance to investigate for hidden credits or other hidden info in the currently displayed page." AND "Look just hit G key and type in the name of a file on your hard disk drive located in any directory and Arachne displays the file on its screen. Whether that file be a text file, image file, movie file or etc." AND "Look how fast I can easily set one of ten hotkeys, Shift-F1 through Shift-F10, to immediately callup that important or favorite file or image, (located anywhere on your HDD, CDROM or even the floppy drive) with just one key press." AND "Look just hit one shifted key, Alt-P, to have Arachne create a postscripts file from the currently displayed page." AND "Look Arachne enables myself or anyone else to do all that and more, on this 'antique' Toshiba, Intel 486DX4-75MHz notebook computer." AND etc., etc., etc. **I expect to have no problem defending my new Arachne promoting default tagline! - Eric Yaeger // [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet Browser -- Arachne V1.67, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
