message sent. here is the message i sent. not really eloquent or anything, but i think its a start. simple and to the point:
"Hello, I am a concerned Israeli surfer. Why is your site not w3c compliant? the forum section in the end of an article cannot be seen in mozilla which is also the engine of Netscape. Aside from the fact that many users which are net savvy uses it and are probably a significant audience for ynet, AOL will soon make Netscape their default browser which means 35 million people will get a chance to use it. It is acceptable now that a site must adhere to w3c standards and all the major sites already updated their site accordingly. Just this week wired.com one of the oldest news site on the web changed their site to be w3c compliant. I would like to refer you to this link for further information: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55675,00.html"; * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:linux-il-bounce@;cs.huji.ac.il]On Behalf Of Herouth Maoz > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: *OT*wired got a makeover > > > At 15:48 +0200 on 11/10/2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > > infact, they insisted that > > you could watch the site content even if you have netscape v1.0 > > checked it with lynx, it looks good > > Heh... Would you believe I still have a working copy of NCSA Mosaic > lying around? > > Of course, I could only test it once I set up proxy, because > apparently Wired doesn't work well with old HTTP 1.0 browsers... > Results: many images are broken, some links are, too, but overall, > the site is readable, and reminds me of the Good ol' days, when > everything was black on grey with tiny inline images for a splash of > color > > Anyway, I suggest sending a link to this article to those pesky web > sites in Israel which still discriminate against black sheep like us. > For example, ynet's adverts section (It's rather annoying to be > looking for a job, finding that job search sites are closed to you, > just because you don't happen to use a specific vendor's browser) > > Which is an opportunity for me to ask you all to send ynet your > protest about this. The proper e-mail appears to be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Herouth > -- > EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HOME PAGE: http://herouth.port5.com/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
