Dear List:
Thomas asked: "How does Mindspring know your OS... {etc.} I don't
like to add bandwidth on the Arachne server, but to simplify: I don't
know. Nevertheless, I have my beliefs. But I am not trained highly
enough to have a definite idea at all. Remember, guys and gals, we are
just amateurs, not professionals in TCP/IP and Web-stuff. That makes us
sophisticated "power-users" to counter the effect of those big companies
that seem to be promoting a big-style Internet. I believe that Mindsping
is a very sophisticated network including Unix/Linux machines at a local
level, networked into centralized servers running either Win 9.x or a
very sophiticated brand of NT 2000. I believe that the ability of the
new bigger servers that run Windows use features of Microsoft.com to
obtain a lot of data from the "user". Remember, to try to access with
my local client Lynx, I had to accept cookies. I think these were used
to track me and report what "style" of user I am, and then refer me to
this error message. In other words, they "assume" I probably am a non-
Windows 95 user and then block me out. This is only my "educated guess".
Yours,
Thomas Tabler
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne browser, WWW Web browser for DOS--
