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It is good not to be alone.
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> I used to subscribe to several lists via nettamer. The fact is
>>that I got problems with two of them: SOS Windows@egroups (Yahoo)
>>and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't write to the first one
>>and on the second one,my mails (or replies to) are received as an
>>empty mail with an attached file (containing the mail).
>I made the discovery that egroups was no longer accessible for me
>when using the built in email client provided with Arachne, a
>graphics internet browser for DOS. I think I tried it with Nettamer
>too, but it just wouldn't work any more. Egroups used to work just
>fine with DOS internet apps before Yahoo took over. I was the
>moderator of a small private mailing list which I had established
>for my family members and relatives only.
>> I changed to Outlook Express (sorry for the blasphem), but I got
>>an error: "HTML format is not allowed on that list, write in text
>format".
>I think it is hard to change the default behavior of Outlook Express
>so that your email client will retain the settings you want.
>Outlook Express seems to have a mind of its own and it does what it
>wants to do. It doesn't care what you want to do.
>> -->if so, why nettamer mails are not correctly received.
>Don't know. I would guess that they have their web site set up
>so as to discriminate against the minor league browsers and email
>clients. If you aren't using the latest and greatest bloatware
>like almost everybody else does, then they figure that you just
>aren't cool and they don't want to play with you.
>> I was supposing a wrong feature in the windows-fr list server.
>>And I have posted that idea and the rest to the list via Outlook
>>Express in text format( I had to write it twice because windows
>>collapsed down). My message has never been received and seem to
>have been censured.
>I have found that at least one ISP will censure even some private
>email messages. I once sent a joke about Osama Bin Laden to a
>friend who subscribes to the Cisnet ISP. The ISP bounced the
>message back to me and said they would not deliver it because they
>didn't like the "subject line" of the message. I changed the
>"subject" line and sent the message again and it went through.
>There was nothing in the message or in the subject line containing
>any language that any normal person of good manners could have
>considered as offensive.
>> My opinion is:
>> 1) nettamer better respect international standards than any M$
>software does
>Nettamer does respect international standards. M$ software is
>highly notorious for violating the standards. M$ wants to impose
>their proprietary psuedo-standards on everybody else.
>> 2) they would like me to use a M$mailer.
>Of course. They are greedy for your money and they resort to very
>devious means to try to force you into buying their stuff. They
>are doing everything they can to make the web incompatible with
>anybody else's software.
>> 3) they don't admit any realistic criticism on a M$ sofware.
>Of course not. M$ takes the position that they know what is best
>for you. They figure that if you aren't smart enough and not cool
>enough to agree with them, then you are just a whiner and a
>complainer who doesn't want to wise up and get with the program.
>M$ hates people like you and me who want to be different and who
>want to cling to the traditional internet standards. We are not
>viewed as realistic. As far as M$ is concerned we are just
>some counterproductive reactionaries. In their eyes we are just
>some real losers and they aren't going to pay any attention to us.
>We are not the kind of people who count.
>All the best,
>Sam Heywood
>P.S. BTW, I should like to comment about your "subject line",
>"software racisme". Perhaps the closest English word for it is
>"racism". I have never before seen the term "racisme". Is this
>French for "racism"?
yes it is, sorry for the mistake.
>-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser -
>http://arachne.cz/
Good software also,but I did not succeeded to configure it.
Gontran
-Switch on your 286 PC,get your mail and log off in less than 2 min --
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Registered
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