From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 14:59:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Barring access to Netscape
Message-ID: <199512010802.AAA09494@blob.best.net>
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At 12:32 AM 12/1/95 +0600, Ed Carp wrote:
>If you want to bar access to your site from a Netscape browser, such 
>can easily be accomplished.  If memory serves, every browser, when 
>connecting to a site, exchanges certain information about the client 
>with the server.  One can gain access easily to that information.

This would not be satisfactory in itself: Ideally one would like to bring
up a page saying  "Sorry, you cannot access that page because you
are using a netscape browser:  Click *here* for the sad tale of
Netscape.

>
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