[109608] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.51
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bartley R. Troyan)
Tue Mar 30 18:47:04 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:31:28 -0500
From: "Bartley R. Troyan" <btroyan@littlekoala.com>
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
CC: Niels Stenhoj <stenhoj@post6.tele.dk>
Reply-To: "Bartley R. Troyan" <btroyan@littlekoala.com>
Niels Stenhoj wrote:
>
> When I download email using the above proggie I receive a page at the
> bottom of the screen with spam from Netscape.
>
> I believe it slows down the transmission speed of my downloads and I
> suspect that it is sometimes responsible for unexplainable breakdowns
> of the line.
>
> Does anyone have a patch or a method of removing this
> facility/inconvenience?
Yeah, that "feature" is a real pain. There is a solution that does not
require you to muck with your TCP/IP routes:
http://help.netscape.com/kb/client/981014-6.html
Worked for me under Windows. May also work on the Macintosh.
BTW, answers to many other obscure questions like this are in the
knowledge base, or this URL which is particularly useful:
http://help.netscape.com/browse/commctr4x.html
-Bart
