On 22-Aug-00, Julian Aronowitz wrote:
> Once you stated "Earthlink," it reminded me that Earthlink and
> Mindspring are now one and the same. This leads, or may lead to big
> problems, expecially, if Earthlink adopts Mindspring's way of having you
> dial in. I use MIAMI, AEMail, and AWeb (I seldomly use V because of the
> inabilities it has with handling js and cookies -- I do not like my
> system hanging up or crashing, unnecessarily.).
The merger was at a coporate level. I still dial into the same POP and
AFAIK use the same modem bank and servers as I always have. I have been
with ELN for years and not had too much trouble with them. They are
tolerant of alternative OS's and thier tech guys will "talk turkey" with
you if you find the right ones. "Windows users press 1, Mac users press
2, all others press 3" <sigh>
> When I set up my account with MindSpring, I found I had to first type
> ALL the info into MIAMI, as though MindSpring were static. This included
> entering everything into the database windows and wherever there is a
> place that can be either dynamic or static, by clicking each place as
> being static. After that, I switched all those places back to dynamic.
> Then, too, I made sure that Miami NEVER asks Mindspring for any info;
> asking for info causes an error in logging in and then a dropped connec-
> tion. By doing all the last, I am able to fully use the Web. Of course,
> I still had to type in some info into Miami, or else it would not know
> where to dial up and would not be able to log me in.
Never had those sorts of problems.
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> I went into this long narration because I do not think that Miami is
> nor can be the cause for any of the troubles. As for the browsers, I do
> not have IBrowse, but I know that the main problems I have had with AWeb
> have be when a site is using XML or JAVA or Flash, and will not let me
> on, unless it detects I can accept these. V, OT other H, fails even
> when nothing except needing js and cookies are required.
Started with the browsers, move on to TCP/IP, move on to ISP, move on to
the Site itself. I'm trying to use some sort of technique here to find
the problem. No matter how much I suspect or don't suspect any one thing
is at fault, I check and attempt to eliminate each in turn. This is what
I do when I don't have a clue as to why something is happening. Miami
connects fine, seems to do lookups fine and otherwise works as advertised,
so no, I don't think it's the problem either.
> Would you do me a small favor? Please go to http://www.onebox.com,
> sign up for a free account. Log off. Then log in and tell me whether V
> was able to let you in, or, were you told by their server that "You must
> allow javascript and cookies to use this site..."? If you can log in
> with V, tell me how you did it?
No I cannot. The Login button appears to be an non implemented JS
function. I'm sure the site is looking for something to be returned by
your browser that it is not getting. AIUI from the chat on this list, JS
functions are far from fully implemented in V.
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