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@Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:16:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Site not accessible with Mozilla 1.3
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Davey Brain wrote:
 
> Steven Zaveloff wrote thusly:

> > I have for a long time used Mozilla to log on to the Verizon
> > Wireless site (www.verizonwireless.com) to pay bills, etc.
> > However, recently, Verizon "upgraded" the site and I discovered
> > that I can no longer login (it won't even go to the login page).

Mozilla 1.3 has cookie & networking problems. Try 1.4 or newer.

> > I called Verizon tech support and was told that the site was
> > designed to work with MSIE. I, of course, told them what I
> > thought of them but that did not solve my problem (i.e.,
> > logging on to the site). I tried setting the HTTP UserAgent
> > setting to MSIE NT 5.1 with Multizilla but it still would not
> > work. Netscape 4.6 does not work either.

> > Any ideas?
 
> Reading stuff like this tends to raise my blood pressure 10 points.  If
> you can't drop Verizon I don't have a real practical solution.  But here
> are a few suggestions you might do to feel better:
 
> 1) Write a paper check for your monthly payment.  Tape a note around it
> saying something like this:
> "10% of people don't use Microsoft Internet Explorer.
> 10% of people are of exceptional intelligience.
> Coincidence?
> Please use standard HTML on your websites, not proprietary non-standard
> code.
> See http://www.w3.org/ "
 
> Put the check in a very small envelope and seal it.  Write "payment
> enclosed" on it.  Put the check in a standard letter envelope and seal
> it.  Write "payment enclosed" on it.  Put it in a #10
envelope and seal
> it.  Write "payment enclosed" on it.  Put it in a larger envelope and
> seal it.  Write "payment enclosed" on it.  Put it in a large mailing
> envelope with the address on it and seal it.  Write "payment enclosed"
> on it.  Put a stamp on it and send it to them.  Do it every month until
> they change back to standard HTML.

Love it.
 
> 2) Start an online petition for dis-enfranchised Verizon users who don't
> use MSIE junk.
 
> 3) Help me start a website listing venders who use MSIE specific crap on
> their websites.  I've been kicking the idea around for a while anyway.
> Most of my friends use Linux and I use eCS.  We could use the info.
 
> 4) Write or call your state's attorney general to protest the assistance
> by Verizon of the continuance of Microcrap's monopoly.
 
> 5) Get as many people as you can to try to logon to the site for at
> least an hour with a non-MSIE browser at the same time every day.  When
> they can't logon after an hour have them all send an email to ask why.
> Do this every day for as long as you can.
 
> Just a few suggestions.  I'm sure you can think of more.

6) Visit http://tinyurl.com/jyc4 and read through the open bugs. If none
match, file a new one. If a "fixed" one matches, reopen it. If you find
an open match, vote for it.
-- 
"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself
under control."                                Proverbs 29:11 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/


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