Speaking of wanting CC cards, 10 pages of marketing info. about you, and similar got'you gimmicks to get free stuff: I recently downloaded a very small compact alternative to, and compliant with, MS Office substitute (602Pro) that had been sending me ads for a while.
Imagine my happiness when I tried to start the software to see the error message, Wont run without Internet Explorer 4 or greater! I know this is common, but the irony of requiring IE for an Alternate (?) to Bill Gates's MS Office. A common marketshare grabber, is outside vendor's software requiring, not IE per se, but one of the DLL libraries that comes with IE for it to function. Developers, I suppose just know the library is supposed to be included with winBlows, so why not use some of its functions? As we all know their is a huge segment of the software industry that uses free or cheap as ploys to lock in markets, get and sell info. etc. Remember the days when the internet was a bunch of college students trading text only usenet news articles, and a few web pages you could view with lynx? Of - I wrote 602Pro to complain, and found I could only do so by reporting ``IE required' as a bug. If you wanted to ask a question or get support, you had to join something and pay something. What a surprise. ---------------------------------------- Howard Schwartz ---------------------------------------- howardbschwartz "at" california.com