I also have noticed a growing number of web sites that are inaccessible to Arachne...not only Arachne, but even some of the latest "developer" versions of Lynx DOS ports for 386 up! I have not even been able to login to my own email group using DOS, since Yahoo bought out eGroups, and have instilled JavaScript and HTTPS SSL...not even with a version of Lynx compiled with SSL enabled. This is what I've been sort of complaining about at Arachne Chat for the past year or so...it's not so much as someone holding a gun or club to my head telling me I must use this certain OS and application software as it is the much more devious plot of getting all the folks who provide services on the Internet to do so using ONLY those protocols that came from a certain BIG corporation! Yes, I know, there is a "workararound" for Arachne in which you open the page in Arachne editor, edit out the https to be only http, save and view, but, this doesn't always work...you have to remember to clear your "cookie" file! What we really need is a grassroots rebellion by those of US who use the Internet daily to gird up our loins and "Just Say NO" to borrow a phrase to all of those who are CRAMMING all this unnecessary "fluff" down our throats! I guarantee you, inside of 2 years, if WE don't do something SOON, it will be too late, and we will find that our perfectly usable 386, 486, Pentium 1,2 and 3s will be LOCKED OUT of the Internet! Yep, I'll still have mine around to play a few of the old games on, maybe keep by checkbook balance, and write simple letters, but it will all be for local only use...if I want to keep my Internet, I'm being forced to "upgrade" to some machine and operating system I DO NO WANT!
Oh, jeez, I did it again. Sorry about that rant, but ya know, I've been playing with these gadgets for a very long time...longer than I care to mention! We stand now at a crossroads to the future...are we going to be as sheep and let ONE COMPANY literally DICTATE how, when, why, where and with what we access the Internet and World Wide Web? I decided a couple of years ago to quit playing the game of continuous system upgrades, software upgrades, only to find I still couldn't do something so simple as web based email! I also decided not to jump and purchase the newest gadgets to come outta the pipes. Yes, I sometimes use MS operating systems and software, BUT...I also use others, especially a lot of other FREEWARE and open source applications! The bottom line is it is MY CHOICE...not Bill's, Steve's, the other Steve's, nor even Larry's, but MINE! I choose what OS and apps I WANT to install and use on the products I PURCHASED! I for one wish to keep it that way and give everyone the same opportunities as I've enjoyed for the past umpteen years! As for what else we can do, I'm not sure. I contemplated a letter to my congressmen and senators, but with the current paranoia in our government, I fear that letters from the constituency are being ignored, besides, I usually don't include such gratuties as cash, checks or other bribes, hehe! Still, I may grab a good old-fashioned pen and paper and jot down a few lines of half-literate comments! C U L8R! Wiz Glenn Gilbreath, Jr. Wizard57M http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/RightWay/wizard57m/index.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
