Re: lynx-dev Altavista E-Mail

[Dave McLean]

You have to register for Altavista free e-mail. Are you saying you did that
with Lynx successfully and you are retrieving messages from that site with
Lynx? 

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> From: David Combs <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re:  lynx-dev Altavista E-Mail
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 5:24 PM
> 
> > 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
>      
>