msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers

Bill Warner plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
26 Oct 2001 11:48:15 -0700


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On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 07:28, Matt Alexander wrote:
> So you lie right back and increase the statistics of IE use, thereby
> increasing the number of websites that solely support IE.  Great...



* * * * * lynx -useragent=3D"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b;Icab)" -coo=
kies -source www.msn.com &>/dev/null

is a great cronjob

;)

Bill Warner



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> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:
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> > Comes up fine when you tell Konqueror to inform the .msn.com domain tha=
t
> > it's IE 5.5 running on Win2K.  MS has been lying for years.  Time we
> > started lying right back.
> >
> > Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers:
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