From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 8 12:51:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08565 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08558 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA00624; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970808154737.07005@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:47:37 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: Murray Stokely Cc: Mark Mayo , Faried Nawaz , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version References: <19970808101443.50002@vinyl.quickweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Murray Stokely on Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 09:29:50AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 09:29:50AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > % The browsers are geting so gigantic these days that I really do find myself > % using lynx more and more. I re-installed Netscape 2.0 last night, and it > % seems to work just fine. I wish they'd offer a version without the mail and > % newsgroup and composer tools, or offer them as separate programs or something. > > They are. I read on pcweek.com a few days ago that Netscape is going > to release a 4.x version of JUST navigator.. none of the groupware, > messaging, etc.. Cool! Now that will work well I think, especially in the Unix community, where many users are already comfortable and happy with their traditional tools and I would suspect rarely use Commmunicator for anything but web browsing anyhow. Good news for sure! -Mark > > Murray Stokely -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert