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Re: FreeServe signup (from Mac) in a loop?

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From: Andy McFarlane
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
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Bob Kenyon <bob@raspbrry.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I connected to the FreeServe signup number and used Netscape 4 to connect
> to the signup page.
> 
> So I see https:/signup.freeserve.net in my window and it eventually says
> among other things
> C Create a New Account Click Here
> 
> So I do this and see
> https:/signup.freeserve.net/aup.shtml followed by 
> https:/signup.freeserve.net/demog.shtml
> 
> which have a scrooling text window of legalese and an Accept button which
> I click and it takes me back to https:/signup.freeserve.net again!
> 
> Is this how it's supposed to work?
> 
> Do I have to have CLI enabled to even get this far? or Cookies?

This is what happened to me when I tried to sign up on my Mac.
Eventually I gave up and signed up via a PC at work and then used Chris
Leuty's settings to connect my Mac. I'd recommend that if you can,
signup on a PC, it's much easier in my experience.

Andy
-- 
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power
and is often, in point of fact, useless - Henry A. Kissinger
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From: andymcf@stranost.freenelsonmandelaserve.co.uk (Andy McFarlane)
Subject: Re: FreeServe signup (from Mac) in a loop?
Date: 1999/05/13
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