"Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
You keep going on and on about Netscape as if that were the only option. You CHOSE to use a commercial application, for which there are at least three alternatives which will run on a comparable platform. Netscape's practices have nothing to do with Linux as a whole. That's like saying DOS sucks because of Ashton-Tate's copy protection schemes. USE ANOTHER APP if you don't like Netscape. You've bitched about it enough. > 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. "Linux app", what the hell is the matter with you. The "Linux app" didn't sell it, the PUBLISHER who ALSO makes/made versions for Windows 3.x-XP sold your list. USE ANOTHER APP. There are several available to you that are NOT put out by commercial interests. There were plenty of DOS apps with lousy documentation, there are plent of Linux apps with EXCELLENT documentation. > 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. You don't even bother reading the documentation that can be installed locally, even after participants on this list have gone to great lengths to point it out to you. You can also turn OFF those "snazzy graphics" with many programs, you kow. > 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. Did you ever bother to install the docs? We've been through this before. You went on endlessly about the lack of manpages, and others with the same distribution responded that they have them. > Why not? because that would adversely affect the ad revenue > of visiting the support websites you mention. You keep implying that Linux is somehow commercial, whereas DOS wasn't. This is blatantly incorrect. - Bob 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
