On Sun, 27 May 2001 03:10:47 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 15:57:41 -0700, Thomas Tabler wrote:
>> 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".
> I believe it is illegal for an ISP to refuse service to a subscriber
> for reason that the subscriber is using an OS which competes with the one
> the ISP is trying to promote. This is a violation of the anti-monopoly
> laws. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that MicroSoft is paying bribes to
> ISPs that go out of their way to promote their OS to the exclusion of all
> others.
> Sam Heywood
Where would you *ever* get such an idea???
You must be mistaken.
Bill Gates would *NEVER* do such a thing!!! <VBG>
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