Robert Connolly wrote these words on 08/06/07 01:09 CST:
> For a while now I have been calling for the executions (one bullet in the 
> head, another in the heart, and continue until they are dead) of web site 
> developers who redirect pages to disable the web browsers <back> button (you 
> click on <back>, and you are redirected back to the page you tried to leave).

Every browser I use has a facility to choose how many pages back
(or which one you wish to go back to). You simply bypass the
offending page. Robert, get with the times and use a modern browser. :-)


> Coincidentally, I'm also calling for similar treatment for people who 
> distribute tar and zip archives which unpack into the current directory.

Yes, this is a PIA, and there's nothing you can really do about it,
other than to do a verbose listing of the tarball first, before
unpacking it. A PIA.

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Randy

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