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From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
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Subject: Re: Denied for not using Microsoft OS
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Jim,

> My bank pulls the same crapolla... won't let me download my account
> data with Konqueror. It's the "knee-jerk" mentality, I guess..

I'm not sure how the "knee" is involved.

The arbitrary discrimination against web browsers which aren't IE or maybe
Netscape on companies' sites which offer services such as online banking
has been of much concern to me recently.

How about collecting a list of "good" and "bad" providers and perhaps
leveraging some weight of numbers to attempt to persude some of the more
backward ones that things like "We support IE 5.5 on Windows 95" is
neither appropriate for a web site nor is it good business.

I'll happily collect names, if someone hasn't already started such a
project.


-Andrew-
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