Re: lynx-dev Altavista E-Mail

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Thu Apr 16 13:31:40 1998
> From: "David McLean" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> 
> Has anyone been able to successfully sing up for and use the Altavista free
> e-mail service using Lynx?
> 
> When I tried I couldn't get past the first page of the form. I then used
> Internet Explorer to sign up and that worked. After that I tried using Lynx
> to get into the site and I kept getting a message which said I had entered
> an invalid id (I needed to add the portion after the at sign(@)). Once
> again I was able to enter the site with IE 3.02. 
> 

What are you talking about, "sign up"?  I just "go" to the place,
via bookmark.

And it all works fine.

Here is my = page:

                                                                                
             Information about the current document

                                               You have reached the Information 
Page
   
Lynx Version 2.8.1dev.2
   
File that you are currently viewing
   
   Linkname: AltaVista: Main Page
        URL: http://altavista.digital.com/
    Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed)
     Server: AV/1.0.1
       Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:20:50 GMT
   Owner(s): None
       size: 14 lines
       mode: forms mode

Link that you currently have selected

   Linkname: AltaVista Search
        URL: http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?text=yes