[SGVLUG] Fwd: WebSpinner: 24 Hours only: *Free* OPERAInternetbrowser

[Marsden at thingol]

At 01:54 PM 8/30/05 -0700, you wrote:
<snippage>
>Apparently, it will take anything that looks like an e-mail address -- I
tried "nobody.in.particular at myob.com" [yeah, I know myob is probably a
legit company/site, but the irony of it is priceless...] and it returned
these codes:


hey, thanks for that!

<further snippage>

>But to the deeper point -- why all the fuss in the first place?  I mean,
with the source code anyone could just create a version that doesn't even
have "banner" support in the first place (probably be a smaller binary to
boot...)  Oh, wait, Opera isn't FOSS you say?  hmmm... that could be a
problem.  Is it that good then?
>
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I don't know if it's any good, but I do know this: my boss acquired a
Blackberry. Now she's not terribly high tech, so she came to me and said "I
have to use either Internet Explorer or Opera to use this, and I have to
use Eudora or Outlook too." We have a no-IE and no-Outlook policy in the
office, so I installed Eudora and the free version of Opera for her. They
work; she's happy with her Blackberry and we're not inundated with
Outlook-borne trouble.

So whether or not it's "any good" isn't important in our case - its mere
availability is what matters. We need options, it provided an option.

Does that make any sense?
Marsden