Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
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> [1] e-mail
> Personaly I prefer Arachne to outlook. She is good but not perfect.
> When I receive attachments in Word, Exel or Adobe PDF I have to swith to
> windows (for word I use view.exe to read the text in Arachne).
When I get an attachment of THOSE types I either delete the entire message
or complain strongly to the sender.
> [1] web browsing
> About 50% of my browsing is possible with Arachne.
> 10% is https secured
> 40% does not function well due to java-script
> So for 50% of my web activities I have to use M$ (Netscape does not
> function that good)... but I first try Arachne.
> Why should any 'normal' person should first try Arachne if M$ gives
> better results ALWAYS (50%)...???!!
> Besides a 'normal' person has already M$ installed... why try Arachne or
> any other browser?
Define 'normal'. You mean unthinking, uncritical or just common ?
> [2] use and install
> Arachne is easy to use... but not easy to install!
> About 1 & half year ago the help of the list was very necessary to have
> Arachne going... why should a 'normal' person go through all this
> trouble if M$ is 'plug and play'??
> Recently I downloaded Arachne 1.70 and all the troubles are here
> again... so I still use 1.61
Yes. Sometimes I think that the attempts to make Arachne 'easy' to install
for the 'normal' (hehe) user make it much harder for the critical user.
> [3] buy a new computer
> <snip>
> Recently I got a better and faster PC as a gift. Win98 installed and no
> way to run 90% of my normal DOS-programms.
> So it was decided to remove Win98 and install win95. !@#$%&^%$#@&
> No Arachne, trouble with WordStar and PictureView... changing the boot
> procedure did not solve the problem. After two weeks of trying and
> swearing, my friend took the 'new' PC back home and i took the old one
> back into use.
> One must be mad (I'am) to go through all of this trouble if M$ fullfills
> all of your wishes!
M$ is NOT fulfilling all your wishes if 90% of your programs won't run
and if you must give away the computer because normal programs like WS
and Pictview won't run under M$.
Madness lives here !! <GG>
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