On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 18:44, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:01 -0400 > Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A recent experience: > > During dinner a week or so back, SheThatIs decreed that the purchase and > > installation of a new mailbox and post was essential to my continued > > happiness. There are two major sources for such purchases in this neck of > > the woods -- Lowe's and Home Depot. Wanting to eliminate schlepping > > between the two stores, I decided to visit to each company's web site to > > compare their offerings. Fired up Konq, went to Lowe's, and saw what they > > had. Next stop, Home Depot. Oops! Some nitwit has decided that since I > > would not be able to enjoy the full benefits of their site because I was > > not running either Netscape 4.0 or IE 4.0; further access was denied. > > > > The next morning I dropped about $150 at Lowe's for the mailbox, mailbox > > post, and some other stuff. > > > > Yes, I could reconfigure to Konq to get past Home Depot's barrier, but why > > the hell should I? They are the ones trying to sell something to me. > > > > And yes, I thought about sending them a nastygram, but that was not in the > > > > list of options. (Remember when every website had a Contact Webmaster > > link?) Then too, would anyone who considers Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 to be > > the latest and greatest understand my complaint? The idiot must still > > think it's 1997. > > I have done that three times (I'm old enough to blame the fact that I forget > about Home Depot and Konq), each time I send a postcard addressed to the > manager of the local store about the situation. > > Third time I got a reply back apologizing, explaining that it was handled by > corporate, AND a nice juicy discount coupon (that I may or may not use). > I'd be interested to hear his explanation about why he was offering 50% off > for an old senile linux geek. ;-) > > Tim
Tim just for fun I ran Mozilla and IE6 against the site. They are half right. They don't work with IE6 ... but they work fine with Mozilla *grin* Guess they are a Linux site after all. And I may have a reason. It's running Netscape server on hp-ux. James
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