Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> In fact I'll _have_ to use Knoppix in ramdrive mode to even
 WC> make sure the Siig and Seagate items I want are in stock at
 WC> the local CompUSA because Netscape 4.08 no longer displays
 WC> their web site AT ALL.

 RJT> Netscape,  huh?  I guess I'm not the only one who's had some problems
 RJT> with some of these companies...

 WC> Guess not however 4.08 is the last 16 bit Netscape that development
 WC> was stopped on some time ago.

 RJT> Oh.

 WC> Yeah. found I could get ComUSA W., Post and Boston Globe if I
 WC> turned Javascript off.
 WC> Usually is off so I didn't suspect that problem.
 WC> Now the Post wants you to register but you have to have
 WC> Javascript enabled.
 WC> Sounds like I mkight have a Catch 22 there :-(

Yeah.  This reminds me of some site that I hit that was apparently having a
lot of problems with people downloading large amounts of stuff.  So they
put a limit into effect.  The only thing was,  the limit involved their
site giving you a cookie,  and I have my browser set to "ask", 
so each time it'd ask me I'd reject it,  and go ahead with what I wanted to
download.  I don't think I came anywhere near their limit,  but it was
silly how easy it was to cicumvent that.  I ran across a reference
somewhere else that involved javascript,  as well,  where they'd used it to
put something in place that was supposed to deal with a spam problem,  but
that had no effect whatsoever if you had javascript turned off.

 RJT> Have you told them that this is happening?

 WC> Seems pointless in in the 32 bit world.

 WC> I'll just stick with Mozilla in Knoppix.

 RJT> These people are building walls around themselves...

 WC> Yeah but Linux is keeping pace :-)

Yep!

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