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Article #964Re: FreeServe signup (from Mac) in a loop?
From: Andy McFarlane
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
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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