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To: ProDeath who wrote (44638)	5/10/2000 12:00:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Schmandull: Here's a ridler for you, which weighs more, 23 pounds of your rhetoric or 1 ounce of facts? from the United Kingdom, THE REGISTER: Posted 10/05/2000 7:48am by Annie Kermath Netscape's disappearing privacy code Netscape has denied yanking privacy features from Mozilla builds under pressure from parent company - and the leading project sponsor of the open source browser project - AOL. The code in question allows users to block banner ads. According to Netscape's Steve Morse, speculation is premature. The code is being included in builds, but has been publicly disabled. It can still be enabled in the user preference file that Mozilla (and hence Communicator) reads at start-up... ...However, the speculation doesn't seem to have been entirely irrational. After the code had already been marked as a problematic in an earlier bug report, Netscape's reaction to a subsequent bug report - noting the disappearance of the option from the menus - was the one that aroused conspirators' suspicions. ... theregister.co.uk

To: ProDeath who wrote (44638)	5/10/2000 1:11:00 PM
From: abbigail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dear SchmanDELI: Whew! Really getting smelly now. "You clearly have no firsthand experience of what I am talking about... Microsoft make lovely little products for small office/home applications, particularly for users who have had their expectations lowered or started out with low expectations due to exclusive exposure to Windows..." SchmanDELI, You're a fraud! ... "Enerprise software...Look beyond my desktop...?" What are you talking about? I do work for my clients, performing services every day with this desktop, as do millions, billions of others. I don't need to look beyond my desktop. Pedal you lunchmeat elsewhere. Thank you. abbigail P.S. Back to work.

To: ProDeath who wrote (44638)	5/11/2000 1:38:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Schmandel - I have plenty of firsthand experience in what you are talking about, and I think you are changing your position to avoid facing the weakness of your earlier posts. YOU were the one who started talking about desktop reliability, so desktop reliability is presumably a valid area of discussion in response. As I said in an earlier post, without some basis of comparison, your troops of "flying monkeys" may or may not be a reasonable level of IT expenditure. But it sounds to me like your experience is with pretty incompetent IT departments. I did some designs using PC clients and UNIX servers in the late '80s which were implemented by mainframe shops who had no experience with either. There was NO significant increase in IT staff to support broad deployment of those systems, and virtually all of the mainframe staff transitioned to the new world. Of course, they were professionals and instituted some good procedures to make sure things worked - still, the same number of technicians who managed a system with more than 5,000 terminals, managed that same system when it was 5,000 PCs as clients. And that was back in the days when all of the hardware and software was much less reliable than it is today. Recent experience tells me the same thing. Systems designed and implemented by professionals who know what they are doing can achieve very high levels of reliability with minimal maintenance problems. If your experience is different, I would suggest you should not count yourself among the professionals who know what they are doing.