[44407] in Cypherpunks
Re: [NOISE] Barring access to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herb Sutter)
Fri Dec 1 15:59:34 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:41:29 -0500
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
From: Herb Sutter <herbs@interlog.com>
Cc: ecarp@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 14:26 12.01.1995 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>If you want to see one way of locking out Netscape users, check out this
>URL which points at a Web Page that will not allow access by Netscape Users
Just a personal note... while I am strongly in favour of security, this
seems rather petulant and knee-jerkish.
JeffW: Please add a configuration option to let users override the "Mozilla"
ident, so that they can continue to use Netscape at all sites. I personally
won't use the override, though; if a site is going to insist on trying to
frivolously exlude me as a user based on nothing but the browser I choose to
use, they aren't serious anyway.
>(the guy is ticked off at them trying to establish their own standards) -
The _market_ establishes standards (been proven time and time again). His
reaction sounds pretty childish to me, but YMMV...
Herb
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