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To: PMS Witch who wrote (14293)	12/27/2000 12:07:47 PM
From: hcm1943	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

I dont know what I did or how but my clickable email links are back

To: PMS Witch who wrote (14293)	12/27/2000 12:15:18 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110655

excerpted from a recent langalist, on netscape6.0 and naviscope wanting to be servers.... Why Is Netscape 6 A "Server?" Here's a pair of letters, the second of which nicely answers the first: When N6 starts up my ZoneAlarm asks me whether I want to allow N6 to be a server. Personally I don't see why N6 needs to act as a server, and I don't like the idea of any programs running as servers on my desktop PC (Security holes ??!!). Why does N6 want to act as a server? --- Jacob Thastrup Netscape 6 has the Personal Security Manager which acts as a secure proxy, the PSM module and local host are in an internal server/client relationship and have no outside influence whatsoever, or in other words, it is acting as a server to itself and sending no information to the Internet. The Netscape 6 Personal Security Manager must act as a local server; [but] your "software firewall" sees this and panics. The same concept is used with some ad blocking software such as Naviscope, which likes to set itself up on your machines loopback address (127.0.0.1), you will notice that your firewall alerts you with a "Will you allow Naviscope to act as a server?" message. ---Ryan Farmer