On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> well all of my browsers no longer render the page, and all are up to date.
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> what do you suggest Dave? install older versions just to access gerry?
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> No, the page coding should be changed, or maybe you can compose an info
> page to be served that will tell the searcher EXACTLY what version of
> browser and OS will work.
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> Just think about it Dave, let's just say a commercial outfit did the same
> as the archives, that is serve up pages that the majority cannot read. Your
> answer would be that the customer is wrong.
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> The wrench analogy is weak, a better one would be morse code.
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> alistair
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> On 2011-08-01, at 12:11 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
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> > As another poster observed, browsers are tools.  So, use the tool that
> works for a given function seems like a reasonable approach.  Sort of like
> not using a wrong sized wrench and expecting it to work.  mcneely
> >
> > ---- Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, egg on my face. Must have been some magic in the latest updates
> of my browsers (all pretty well up to date), now none of them will display
> the archives. I swear that a month or so ago safari worked reaching the
> archives. I think safari and chrome both use webkit.
> >>
> >> Yup, mee too. I go there often, have been there in the last month 3-4
> times, and today (just now) I get the blank page. Never before.
> >> Something has changed ..... RECENTLY.
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> >> Safari-Surfer
> >> Mac OS X Version 10.6.8
> >>
> >> Bob
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> > --
> > David McNeely
>

  You know that saying..."You get what you pay for"?  The Vanagon list is
free.  The main part works just fine.  The archives?  I never had any luck
with a search on those, but then I paid exactly $Zero for them, so I get
what I paid for.

  It is somewhat tiresome to always hear..."Search the Archives" or "I have
tried the Archives with no luck, so I am asking....."..or advice on a
subject pre-pended by somewhat superior sounding "it's in the archive, but
here is the answer......" Implying..."you should look it up yourself, you
lazy ......"   In my few years on the list, I have never gotten much of
anything, trying the archives, though I still try...rarely.  Google search
seems to bring up all the info anyhow...I guess.