Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread BeeNeR
On or about 12/2/2009 11:07 PM, David E. Ross typed the following: On 12/2/2009 7:53 PM, Paul wrote: David E. Ross wrote: (snip) A great idea but getting millions of webmasters to change billions of web sites could be a problem. S N I P There might be some upfront cost for

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread BeeNeR
On or about 12/2/2009 10:57 PM, question typed the following: I think the Sniffing is a leftover from the Netscape /IE War . Thats about the only way they could come up with Accurate Numbers ... Counting the downloads of either Netscape or IE would not be that accurates as to USER who actually

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 3/12/2009 09:17, BeeNeR told the world: On or about 12/2/2009 10:57 PM, question typed the following: I think the Sniffing is a leftover from the Netscape /IE War . Thats about the only way they could come up with Accurate Numbers ... Counting the downloads of either

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread Phillip Jones
David E. Ross wrote: On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: Two recent threads in mozilla.support.seamonkey on this issue resulted in very lengthy discussions. See SeaMonkey and U.S. Government site does not work at

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread Phillip Jones
. Tracking bug #334967 for these problems was written on 21 Apr 2006. The earliest bug tracked by #334967 was bug #166261, written on 2 September 2002 and now closed. Novice users of SeaMonkey and other non-Firefox browsers that use Gecko are often confused about what sniffing and spoofing

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread Phillip Jones
Leonidas Jones wrote: Rufus wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: /snip/ I can't see the individual listing's either using a Mac and SM 1.1.18...but I have a question - do you have to log into the TV Guide site in order to see

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread Phillip Jones
Arnie Goetchius wrote: David E. Ross wrote: 5. Management at both the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation should make similar contacts via postal mail with executives of the companies and agencies whose Web sites are causing problems. (Many executives are still more responsive

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread question
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 3/12/2009 09:17, BeeNeR told the world: On or about 12/2/2009 10:57 PM, question typed the following: I think the Sniffing is a leftover from the Netscape /IE War . Thats about the only way they could come up with Accurate Numbers ... Counting the

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread question
BeeNeR wrote: On or about 12/2/2009 10:57 PM, question typed the following: I think the Sniffing is a leftover from the Netscape /IE War . Thats about the only way they could come up with Accurate Numbers ... Counting the downloads of either Netscape or IE would not be that accurates as to USER

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread Leonidas Jones
Phillip Jones wrote: Leonidas Jones wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: David E. Ross wrote: /snip/ Lee Just saw this: Not SM 2 specific Tried in SeaMonkey 2, FireFox 3.5, Camino, Opera, iCab,OmniWeb, and Safari. They all look the same then act the same. Don't have access to Chrome Mac (won't be

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread question
Leonidas Jones wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Leonidas Jones wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: David E. Ross wrote: /snip/ Lee Just saw this: Not SM 2 specific Tried in SeaMonkey 2, FireFox 3.5, Camino, Opera, iCab,OmniWeb, and Safari. They all look the same then act the same. Don't have access

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-03 Thread NoOp
On 12/02/2009 05:49 PM, Leonidas Jones wrote: Rufus wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: /snip/ I can't see the individual listing's either using a Mac and SM 1.1.18...but I have a question - do you have to log into the TV

Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread David E. Ross
2006. The earliest bug tracked by #334967 was bug #166261, written on 2 September 2002 and now closed. Novice users of SeaMonkey and other non-Firefox browsers that use Gecko are often confused about what sniffing and spoofing are. This was readily noticed in the two threads cited above, where one

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Phillip Jones
was written on 21 Apr 2006. The earliest bug tracked by #334967 was bug #166261, written on 2 September 2002 and now closed. Novice users of SeaMonkey and other non-Firefox browsers that use Gecko are often confused about what sniffing and spoofing are. This was readily noticed in the two threads

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: Two recent threads in mozilla.support.seamonkey on this issue resulted in very lengthy discussions. See SeaMonkey and U.S. Government site does not work at

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Leonidas Jones
for these problems was written on 21 Apr 2006. The earliest bug tracked by #334967 was bug #166261, written on 2 September 2002 and now closed. Novice users of SeaMonkey and other non-Firefox browsers that use Gecko are often confused about what sniffing and spoofing are. This was readily noticed

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Rufus
David E. Ross wrote: On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: Two recent threads in mozilla.support.seamonkey on this issue resulted in very lengthy discussions. See SeaMonkey and U.S. Government site does not work at

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Leonidas Jones
Rufus wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/2/2009 5:09 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: I previously wrote [in part]: /snip/ I can't see the individual listing's either using a Mac and SM 1.1.18...but I have a question - do you have to log into the TV Guide site in order to see the individual

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Arnie Goetchius
David E. Ross wrote: 5. Management at both the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation should make similar contacts via postal mail with executives of the companies and agencies whose Web sites are causing problems. (Many executives are still more responsive to postal mail than to

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread NoOp
On 12/02/2009 04:08 PM, David E. Ross wrote: Two recent threads in mozilla.support.seamonkey on this issue resulted in very lengthy discussions. See Seamonkey and U.S. Government site does not work at news://news.mozilla.org:119/so-dntlowokak43wnz2dnuvz_r6dn...@mozilla.org and Web site work

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread Paul
David E. Ross wrote: (snip) A great idea but getting millions of webmasters to change billions of web sites could be a problem. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread question
I think the Sniffing is a leftover from the Netscape /IE War . Thats about the only way they could come up with Accurate Numbers ... Counting the downloads of either Netscape or IE would not be that accurates as to USER who actually use what they Download. The Good old days was when we Used

Re: Sniffing and Spoofing

2009-12-02 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/2/2009 7:53 PM, Paul wrote: David E. Ross wrote: (snip) A great idea but getting millions of webmasters to change billions of web sites could be a problem. Many sites that sniff for a UA string do so for specific versions. That is, they sniff for Firefox/3 and not for merely Firefox.