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<Andy Jacobs>
<Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:47:36 +0000>
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm
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At 0.6% of users i doubt many people give a fuck .


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"Andy Jacobs" wrote in a message...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm

Bad to think of a company break-down and coffee machines going to the dump 
etc but good that users of NS will move on with the times.

The best/odd thing I remember from the last NS was that it offered displays 
in both IE and Mozilla modes which gives a hint that it wasn't much a 
browser of it's own anyway.

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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:47:36 +0000, Andy Jacobs
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm

Netscape (the company rather than the browser) did some things I thought
were bad so on the whole I a not sorry to see them go.

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But on another issue;

I've only been on Usenet for about 3 years and it seems the MFI perseverance 
bloke has been abusing it for decades. I am seeing great composure round 
here- is everybody that sick of it that they just don't bother?

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In <9MVej.18691$ov2.6345@newsfe5-win.ntli.net> on Thu, 03 Jan 2008
00:12:53 GMT, "dE|_"  wrote:

>I've only been on Usenet for about 3 years and it seems the MFI perseverance 
>bloke has been abusing it for decades. I am seeing great composure round 
>here- is everybody that sick of it that they just don't bother?

Sensible use of killfiles and you can join those of us who had no
idea it was that time of the cycle again.

-- 
DG

Andy Jacobs wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm

Was I the only one who misparsed the article title?

	"Web icon set to be discontinued"

I figured someone had been publishing a set of icons for use on the web 
(e.g. little house for the home page link, picture of a pen and paper for 
the "contact us" page, etc) and had decided to discontinue it.

This interpretation was reinforced by the illustrations accompanying the 
article: a large Netscape icon, and a large Firefox icon.

re: Netscape, I think what's surprising is that they've clung on this 
long. Since Netscape 6, they've just been clumsy rebrandings of various 
Mozilla products (Netscape 6/7 of the Mozilla suite, and 8/9 of Firefox). 
Some more clumsy than others: 6.0x and 6.1x were downright awful, though 
in fairness, that's mostly because the Mozilla core was very unstable at 
that time -- 6.2x was usable and 7.x was much more polished.

However, this is not really the end of Netscape -- just the end of the 
Netscape name.

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