Is Canada Post discriminating against Linux?

David J Patrick davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Mar 26 19:38:00 UTC 2005


Robert Brockway wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>Have you tried spoofing your ID; posing as IE ?
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>The problem there is that then they will think that no one is using 
>Firefox to try to access their site.  This comes down to the old "short 
>term work around vs long term fix" conundrum.  If we go around 
>masquerading as IE now things may only get worse :(
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>Rob
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Well it's broken now, if we tape it up (spoof ID) and keep the wheel 
squeaky (complain loudly and often, alerting them to the fact that linux 
users are present and forced to fly under the radar ) it's better that 
giving up and booting the Borg.
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