Dear List and/or Gregy:
Yes, I noticed this effect of my ISP too. I first found it hard
to login with it until I discovered that simply adding a capital "P"
at the end of the username string. This is the reverse of Gregy's
ISP which requires it to proceed the username field. Why it is this
From: "Thomas Tabler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Personal Use
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 19:45:24 -0700
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Subject: Arachne development and Netscape-like features
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Dear Gregy:
I appreciate your openness and experience with these matters.
I did not know that you installed software for a living {or do you
manage software needs for dialups?}. I found that my brother-in-law
had similiar problems with his ISP, so after some hard attempts by
him and me to use the "earlier" {that is Arachne versions up to
1.66} packages, he just gave up and said it wasn't worth the expend-
iture of time. I told him that Arachne could still work, but it
requires special drivers and a seperate dialer package. I still
have no time to attempt a connection using Surfbest. I don't have
any time to go up there and I would have to get another ISP account
to even try it out. It will probably fall by the wayside for quite
a while. He eventually decided to use the Win 32 version of Opera
and was quite pleased with it, although he still hasn't registered.
I agree with you that for Arachne to be competitive with Netscape
it must have 'Netscape-like' features, while avoiding the bloat.
It already has some, but that is not the problem. In the main,
it does not have openSSL encryption, nor does it have a wide range
of ISP's it can use. I mean, ISPs that will probably be in business
after 2 years. We have seen a lot of ISPs come and go and all the
work on establishing connections based on them is moot now. They
are out of business. I am going to make an effort to try to setup
the SSHDOS APM client package to use with Arachne, but I don't know
how sucessful it will be. And right now I must work on other things.
Glenn M. on the List claims all the APM's work just fine. I question
his reasoning as the average user just can't understand and implement
OOK files and the necessary add-on installations easily. Maybe
SSH-dos client can be more easily set up as a seperate SECURE browser
client {outside of Arachne directory}. I just don't know yet.
Also, I wonder if some features of secure technology don't require
a lot of RAM. I think probably, YES. That is why I don't like over-
committing myself to a definite timetable.
Yours,
Thomas Tabler
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne browser, WWW Web browser for DOS--
