At 15:41 12/1/95, Herb Sutter wrote:

At 14:26 12.01.1995 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

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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.

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(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

I am not advocating his gripe (or the security question) - My message was posted to provide an example of how to treat Netscape users special by locking them out IF you have a need/desire to do so (which was what was being requested).