FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Chris Peterson]

Could you guys take this off the list?

Chris Peterson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a
page from Napster


> Hi Janina,
>
> <smile>  OK, but that doesn't answer my questions, Janina.  Here they
> are again.
>
> 1.  Where do you enter your name and so on on the application?  All I
>     saw was the long agreement form.  That should have come *after*
>     you added your name and so on.  I never saw any place to add
>     personal data.
>
> 2.  I'm glad about the verification process, and I can certainly
>     provide that info, no problem, but if the site only works for
>     MSIE5.5 will the search boxes work?  Will anything work at all?
>     See, that's what's so misleading.  If the statement "this site is
>     for MSIE5.5 or later" is gone, then does that mean the site is now
>     accessible?  I haven't seen anything on the beta lists about work
>     in Linux or talk of Linux or anything.  I got the impression that
>     the subject was werboten.   It's nice to know that somebody is
>     doing something, but I thought the whole idea of the beta list for
>     the site was to let people *know* what was going on.  I told Peter
>     that I'd be happy to help and that I was willing to test in Lynx.
>     When I wrote that I found the site to be inaccessible with Lynx, I
>     got no response at all, nothing!  Now maybe there was something I
>     was doing wrong, but if that was the case, then they should have
>     treated me with the same patience and understanding and courtesy
>     that the Windows users got, frankly!!
>
> Ann P.
>
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