On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 08:50:41 +0000, Thomas Tabler wrote:
> Dear Sam:
> It's unfortunate, but whether or not Yahoo Egroups uses the
> information submitted online for selling to spammers, the Yahoo website
> seems to have two main features that are objectionable from a
> philisophical viewpoint: 1. They allow links-URLs that go to sites
> with "questionable" content, some directly to Porn sites.
Anybody who would try to porn you is of the same character as those who
would spam you. All are insensitive to the personal feelings of others
about security and privacy and their sense of adequacy and self-esteem.
>2. Their
> site construction is done in such a way as to make them hard to access
> using a browser less than version 5 (Internet Explorer V. 5.5 is there
> "map" although they might include other open-source browsers like Opera,
Opera is not an open source browser. It is like functional shareware.
You can download a free version that works fine, but you have to pay
and register it if you want their ad banners to go away. You are not
obligated to register it and it doesn't come with a time worm providing
for a "limited" free trial period. For Window$-based browsers I
consider Opera a much better choice over MSIE and NetScape. Also Opera
comes with a pretty good email client, but it isn't nearly as good as
Arachne's. It is only better than all other Window$-based email clients
I have tried. The only others I have tried are M$ Lookout, Eudora, and
NetScape Communicator.
> if it is version 5 or above. Arachne, since it can make some use of
> HTML 4.01 Transitional and earlier 4.0 will work O.K. on only a few
> pages. This has been my experience using my brother-in-law's computer
> in Seattle and my sister's computer too. Even Glenn M. who worked very
> hard trying to make the Arachne browser work with Yahoo, has given up
> and won't write a hack. I am glad that Arachne can be useful with a
> few limited pages, but I personally wouldn't use it for a lot of
> extensive browsing on Yahoo, if I had an account {most of my info
> has lapsed and couldn't probably be used anymore}.
Others have tried very hard to make alternative DOS-based browsers
to work with Yahoo. I think they have all given up too.
Sam Heywood
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