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Re: Boycott Microsoft

From: Bob Bonneville <wa3cuj_at_*noMOspam*ptd.net>
Date: 1998/05/17
Message-ID: <01bd81c7$7afe40c0$2625bacc@default>#1/1

I have both IE and Netscape on my computer at work because of the sites that I needed to access that only Netscape will work with. Part of the problem here is our firewall, which I believe is an IBM product.

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Bob Bonneville
Lebanon, PA  USA

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James Stafford <jamess_at_cts.com> wrote in article
<355EAFB7.E572C8FE_at_cts.com>...

> Rick wrote:
> >
> > Gil Harvey <Gil_at_Old-Hippy.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > What does that have to do with MS or IE? That's
> > > because some idiot doesn't know HTML.
> >
> > No. Its becasue MS software can ID what browser you are running and
deny
> > access. Some Mac people have come up with a hack that makes navigator
ID
> > itself as IE. Voila!!! All web sites are now open.. even the previously
> > closed MS dominant ones.
> > --
> > *** To reply remove nospam from my return address. ***
>
> There are even Banks that force you to use certain OS's to do online
> banking! There's a hack for Linux to correct this injustice.
>
> jamess
>
Received on Sun May 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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