As I said before their are additional filtering capabilities built into
the newer generation of applications. A simple search of the world wide
web pages will provide a wealth of insightful information as well as
case studies on how to utilize the newer applications.

Another option is for you to win the PowerBall lottery and then you can
have someone build and maintain your systems exaclty as you have them
configured in your minds eye.

John Oram

Day Brown wrote:
>
> Bob George wrote:
> > > whereas with linux apps, what seems to be happening is that they are
> > > only offering documentation online, which means that you havta fill
> > > out a form, and make yourself even more subject to spam. no thanx.
> > > I have not had good luck with that.
> >
> > If this were even moderately true, the program would seem lifelike. As it
> > is, it fails the Turing test badly on this point alone. Any fool can find a
> > wealth of information on Linux without ever encountering a web form. And
> > most of it can be read with a text-only browser to boot.
> Another strawman Bob. I aint talking about the operating system,
> which may very well have lots of info on my drive. Given how long
> it takes to find any, I daresay it must be lot.
>
> No, I am talking about the apps. In this case Netscape, but no
> doubt others have figured this out as well. The app is free, not
> crippleware, no beg screens for registration. But the app folks
> have figured out that where they can get their money is from the
> advertising and user data base. So, they keep the help screens on
> their websites, and you pay for that with cookies and other kinds
> of unseen costs like more spam.
>
> The beg screens of dos shareware were never nearly the problem.
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