Re: [ANN] BBC BASIC for Windows version 4.00 released

"Norman L. DeForest" wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > In comp.lang.basic.misc Norman L. DeForest <af380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > : What part of "when I *have* a cookie from them in my [bleep]ing cookie
> > : jar." did you fail to understand?
> >
> > It's highly ambiguous. I read the "when I have a cookie..."
> > clause as being part of the message you received from Yahoo.
>
> /me mollified.
>
> OK then. I guess, after re-reading my original post a few times, I see
> now how it could have been misunderstood.
>
> The fact is, though, that when I *do* accept their cookie(s) and *do* have
> evidence of my browser having saved their cookie(s) (because I can see
> the cookie in my cookie jar), I still get redirected to a page that tells
> me to enable cookies and try again.
>
> That's broken server behaviour in my opinion.
>
> I would object less if Yahoo! was just honest about things and redirected
> my browser to a page that read:
>
> LYNX USERS: F*CK OFF!
> Our webmaster is too incompetant to design accessible pages
> and we're too cheap to hire competant help.
>
> --
> Can you Change: N O V A Halifax to N O V A Halifax *
> * S C O T I A . S C O T I A .
> in 34 moves? (*==Lobster) http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/JSNSPuz.html
> (Requires a browser supporting the W3C DOM such as Firefox or IE ver 6)

Your problem is that so few folks use Lynx on Yahoo that it is not worth it to
them.

LB


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