From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 21: 1:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3EB14FD2 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwakers@home.com) Received: from c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com ([24.5.221.231]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990907040013.IVDO21497.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:00:13 -0700 Received: by c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BEF8AB.3C31DF30@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:14 -0700 Message-ID: <01BEF8AB.3C31DF30@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> From: "Michael W. Akers" To: 'FreeBSD' Subject: RE: IE for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill, Saw the web site, good start! Mike Akers ---------- From: Bill A. K. [SMTP:billieakay@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 7:32 PM To: Michael W. Akers; Chris; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Hi, Thanks for your support :) Please visit my web site that I just put up for this purpose. The URL is: http://iefreebsd.freeservers.com My dedicated email address for this is iefreebsd@hotmail.com This page was just put up tonight, so it's not finished. Please come back and sign the Guestbook/Petition when it's up. If anybody has any ideas about how to run this thing, they would be very much appreciated. Thanks and please tell your friends to visit my page. :) Bill billieakay@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael W. Akers To: 'Bill A. K.' Cc: 'FreeBSD' Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: RE: IE for FreeBSD > Bill, > I am willing to get behind this and push. > If they want names, do give them mine. > > Michael W. Akers > M. Akers Enterprises > Unix/NT Systems Administration and Systems Integration > > ---------- > From: Bill A. K. [SMTP:billieakay@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 6:07 PM > To: Chris; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD > > Hi, > Here's a copy of the message that I send to Microsoft under product > suggestions: > > ------Begin copy------ > > Hello, > > I am a user of a BSD UNIX operating system called FreeBSD. > (Information on FreeBSD is available at www.freebsd.org) > > I and some other of my fellow FreeBSD users would like to see a version > of Microsoft Internet Explorer (4.0 or greater) for our OS. > > A thing to note is that FreeBSD has support to execute Linux binaries. > > Currently, the only decent modern browser for our system is Netscape > Communicator which to some of us is a second choice for a browser even when > we are running Windows. > > Unlike some UNIX system users, I respect Microsoft and I am very much > impressed to see that IE had been ported to UNIX (A competing platform) in > the first place. > > I would appreciate some feedback on my request. > > Thanks > > Bill > billieakay@yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message