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To: Jeff Leader who wrote (8466)	3/16/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 27307

>>IMO we're just entering the second inning of this ballgame. Yahoo may have a 1-run lead, but they've 'taken' nothing at this point. ...and the bet is on!

To: Jeff Leader who wrote (8466)	3/16/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Respond to of 27307

OFF_TOPIC on the browser war. I was an early adopter of Netscape 4.01; the only way to upgrade is by downloading the whole enchilada. I gave it a try one night after most of the U.S. was asleep and had no luck. I kept filling out the damn registration form and clicking on AGREE, but it kept giving me a javascript error. Yeah, they'll mail me a CD-ROM if I fork over the $40 bucks or so. So I went over to microsoft.com and tried to get the latest IE 4. They have a 440 KB setup.exe file that handles interrupted downloads better than the NSCP approach, and no java errors or http errors over in billg land. After 3 days of trying (not all their fault since the local phone switch is overloaded), I have 9 MB of the needed 16 on my hard drive. No point in giving up now. Though I hate MSFT with a passion, it seems like they have a better system for d/l'ing their browser. If I can d/l all 16 MB of IE 4 before they have an another upgrade, I'll probably stop using Netscape 4.01 because it crashes all the time when i go to java pages. David