Sunday August 22 1999, Frits Spieker writes to Christer Jacobsson:

 CJ>> The registration website SUCKS!

 FS> Why?

 CJ>> First you have to fill in a form and submit it. The response you got
 CJ>> from that is a message to the effect "We are sorry bla bla bla...".
 CJ>> Essentially, the message is a registration FAILURE message, nowhere
 CJ>> does it mention that you should wait for an email confirmation of your
 CJ>> registration which also contains the download URL you should use!

 FS> Nope. The response I got was that I was immediately and automaticly
 FS> directed to the download page where I could download the whole thing.
Have
 FS> you got cookies enabled for that site?

Pray, show me *how* I should fill in the critical fields, i.e. name, userID,
phone, email adress and so on to gain access to the download aera! And no, I
have Cookies enabled for ALL sites, blowing your theory to kingdom come! By
the way, I've changed NS/2 so it won't communicator/2 to

I have tried literally EVERYTHING. but I'm always refused access with an
access code #53, #54 or #57. For example, HOW do i enter a CORRECT
international telephone number that will be accepted by IBM? I've tried both
+46-60-500xxx and 46-60-500xxxx but no one of these were accepted as

I'm completely stymied - if this is a piece of IMB:s so-called custom-friendly 
policy, I can only hope that M$ will crush IBM utterly. If IBM:s release code
of NS/2 4.61 is shipped with this dumb download constraints, then I'll switch
to Communicator 4.61/win31, or Opera for that matter, as long as I can go away 
from this IBM crappy software as soon as possible.

A last-ditch prayer: Can *someone* outside US show me ECACTLY what a VALID
international telephone number & an international accepted ZIP code should be
constructed so that non-US telephone customer can access the download sites?



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