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Date:         Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:47:15 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Searching archives
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
In-Reply-To:  <F395A8EA-263C-435A-B3CA-492CF4492AE3@SHAW.CA>
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I don't know who "Daddy" is. A couple of members have indicated they are trying something, though the fixes they are trying don't sound like they actually go to the meat of the problem. Doesn't anyone have access to the server where the storage is, and know how to fix it? Meanwhile, trudge on is all I can say. tomorrow may be a better day. mcneely

---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote: > the point I was trying to make is that we have quit a good portion of browsers that don't work. Dave gave us one data point, his browser Firefox 3.6.18, that works. > > There is no indication on the site what browser to use. At least that would give the indication there are archives to search. Folk who get a blank page won't likely know what the heck is going on and they won't go back. > > There is a feeling that we should just shut up and be happy we even have the archives, but it is the members that made the darned archive. "Daddy" won't fix it, "Daddy" obviously doesn't know or care that it is broken. > > alistair > > > > > > > > On 2011-08-01, at 2:48 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > > > Yeah, well, the Vanagon archives ain't a commercial enterprise, I reckon > > we're all just darn lucky that they are there at all. I suspect there is > > no one to change the page coding. > > > > I see Dave's point, namely that the archives are the archives and if you > > want to web browse them, you have to use whatever works to see them. But > > I think that it would be a little silly if we needed to use the 1993 > > NCSA Mosaic browser. > > > > I'll give that email method a shot. > > > > -- RJS

-- David McNeely


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