Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> 980328 Wayne Buttles wrote: 
> > Matt Ackeret <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> So nobody knows how to get lynx to save the user agent?
> > As I remember it, Fote is the reason it was never implemented.
> >   www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0797/msg00460.html
>  
> Fote seems to have retired -- at least he hasn't appeared for a while -- ,
> but the point he made does have merit; however, given that he objected
> to saving the user agent, what was his excuse for allowing it to be changed
> in the option screen in the first place?  ie if it's ok to change it,
> what is the precise additional objection to being able to save it?
> does the current Lynx consensus still support his view of the matter?
> (ok, i should go look at his message 9707 ... )

I support his view because I believe the user needs to be kept aware that
their browser is masquerading as another. If the user agent is set in the
configuration file, they might conceivably never know, especially in the
case of an anonymous account.