Greg Mayman (3:800/449) wrote to Steven Horn at 07:50 on 01 May 2003:

 GM> Consider this: In the 60's IIRC one of the European countries
 GM> switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. If one
 GM> of the motorists had said "It's not my fault that the rest of the
 GM> country has changed and I haven't" would he have a case?

That is not quite the same thing.  This user wasn't told he had to drive on
a different side of the road.  Instead, he discovered that unless he
changed something in his car, the ride would be not nearly as good as it
once was. 

 GM> And in the case of Netscape 3? That's ancient stuff indeed! I
 GM> suspect it may be even older than Arachne 1.0.

It may be but at the time of its release, it was still the standard.

 GM> But if the servers have been so much upgraded, how is it that
 GM> Netscape 3 dated 1996 can still work, and yet the latest version of
 GM> Arachne, 1.71UE01 dated 12/12/02, cannot?

 GM> IMO that points to a weakness in Arachne.

The servers you were trying to reach may not have been upgraded but you did
have to tweak your Arachne.

 GM> Now I can open Arachne and connect, then shell out to the FTP
 GM> client, do my up- or downloading and come back to Arachne at my
 GM> leisure ;-)

I assume you are happy.:-)

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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