Re: IE can be made safe ....

From: Frank Slootweg (this_at_ddress.is.invalid)
Date: 07/14/04

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    Dorsai <dorsai@mail.com> wrote:
    > Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> banged on the keyboard until
    > producing news:40f54d82$0$14251$d5255a0c@news.wanadoo.nl:
    >
    > > Bill Unruh <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
    > >> Lars M. Hansen <badnews@hansenonline.net> writes:
    > >>
    >
    > > But apparently the free car makes one lose (sp?) one's eyesight, so
    > > perhaps one should stick with the old car? (Hint: The question, i.e.
    > > Jim Kennedy's, was not about IE and not even about OE, but about O,
    > > and whether you/I/anyone like it or not, O has some features which are
    > > not available in free MUAs.)
    >
    > True. But each program (IE & O) invokes the other (ie, sending an email
    > from a web page, looking up a URL from an email), regardless of what
    > other program you've got for that functionality.

      AFAIK, that is not true! In Windows' Internet Options you can set your
    browser and your mailer. Given the 'advice' in this (sub-)thread, it is
    somewhat funny that in some versions of Netscape it is not possible to
    set one's browser or/and mailer to something other than Netscape. (No, I
    don't know if that is still the case in current versions of Netscape/
    Mozilla.)

    > So is it a case of losing one's eyesight, or removing the too-dark
    > sunglasses :-}


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