Ole Juul (1:153/7715) wrote to All at 11:04 on 06 Oct 2003:

 OJ>   I'm new around here, but I guess that's obvious considering the
 OJ> number of posts....Its hard to hide!

Are you saying it has been too quiet?:-)

 OJ>   I've been fooling with computers for some years now, mostly
 OJ> hardware and communications oriented. So far, DOS is all I've been
 OJ> able to manage (I'm a slow learner) and those "mousie"
 OJ> programs are way too difficult for me to understand.... I guess I'm
 OJ> missing that special mouse gene. 

And what about those of us who can't type?

 OJ>   Here's what I'm on about today:
 OJ>   Someone here mentioned that there was a LYNX list, I guess that
 OJ> is on the internet since I can't find it on FIDO. Can anybody tell
 OJ> me where to go? (regarding LYNX, that is ... he, he.)

Go to http://lynx.browser.org.  You'll find some useful tips and the list
address there.

 OJ>   My emmediate problem with the program is that it redirects some
 OJ> requests. . . . I really don't understand where the error is
 OJ> comming from, but it is quite frustrating. I called my ISP and they
 OJ> did not get the same error there. Here is what it does: If I try to
 OJ> go to tvdog's site from fdisk.com, then I get
 OJ> redirected to www.digimedia.com. The same happens when I enter the
 OJ> URL directly ... even with a clean cache. Another example is
 OJ> slashdot.org. I simply cannot get there from here! Every
 OJ> time (count 'em) I get redirected to digimedia. If this is
 OJ> not a LYNX problem, then it seems like a pretty serious
 OJ> transgression somewhere, and I would like to follow that up.   Any
 OJ> suggestions?

I can't replicate the problem with my Internet Explorer so you've either
got a Lynx problem or some sort of tranlation gremlin.

Take care,

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