John Oram wrote: > > As I said before their are additional filtering capabilities built into > the newer generation of applications. A simple search of the world wide > web pages will provide a wealth of insightful information as well as > case studies on how to utilize the newer applications. The cost of that wealth of info, at for example Netscape.com, is the cookies you pay and the spam list you get on.
Arachne, on the otherhand, typical of dos apps, came with an extensive .doc file. And even after going to the website, I dont recall getting nearly the spam from michael, whereas the Linux app has apparently sold my name to other outfits. Another diff, inferred in your advice, is that my system is always logged onto the net. It aint. the local ISP routinely drops carrier, and I got other things to do besides hassle with logging in when I'm trying to do other things. If all you do with a pc is work online, I guess it makes sense; especially if you have high speed data and dont havta sit around waiting for their snazzy graphics to load before it lets you read a text FAQ. A standard 50X80 VGA screen is 4k. 250 screens/meg, just one gig of a cheap hard drive these days would therefore hold 250,000 pages, more than enough to hold every FAQ of every Linux app I ever hope to use. For an extra buck it could be burned on a couple of CDs to come with a distro. it aint. Why not? because that would adversely affect the ad revenue of visiting the support websites you mention. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
