-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <ac35228910021004fd83@[205.199.118.202]>, tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:

Out of curiousity, the phrase "grown out of Netscape," aside from the implied barb, means what? Just what am I missing and what do I need to "grow out of"?

Tim, I won't presume to speak for Robert, but I can tell you this: Netsacpe/Mosaic is an awsome program. It fundamentally changed the way I use and access the net. Going from terminal emulation to the present version of Netscape, as you have, can not fail to impress an individual. This is similar to the awe one might feel when going from a typewriter to a computer with MS Works preinstalled. But we both know that MS Work is often not the best tool for the job. It spreadsheet pales compared to Excel, its wordprocessor lacks features, etc. Consequently, many people that buy a computer packaged with Works end up replacing or augmenting Works with other, specialized, programs that do a better job at many of the tasks that Works claims to do. Netscape is, in many regards, just like Works. It has a sub-standard newsreader, a featureless mailer -- but a very nice browser. So many people use Netscape for a browser and other programs for other tasks, because other programs are better suited for it than Netscape. When Robert mentioned that he was wondering how you would think about Netscape in six months, he was perhaps thinking what most experienced Mac using netsurfers know: The various leading Mac Internet programs are excellent modular tools that, thanks to cooperation between the various authors, are tighly integrated. Often, the same key combinations that work in one progamm, work in the other. They are small, they are fast, and they can call each other. The only odd man out is Netscape, which tries to do it all by itself and therefore does nothing right. Once someone tries Anarchie for ftp, or one of the enhanced (current leader seems to be Y.A.) Newswatchers for USENET, there is no going back to just Netscape. I remeber writing here once that after someone tries surfing the Web with Mosaic, there is no going back to just using lynx. The same holds true for Anarchie, Newswatcher, Eudora -- and Netscape. Let's talk in six months (no barb, just confidence that you will learn new things as time goes by), - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMA/x6SoZzwIn1bdtAQGXNgGAm2v5m3S8rJ4UWOpWSR+JD6KU1zscjsEm xU89gO9nuJzUXk5JbOM0EhAWc9bi/kER =Nwn1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----