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Grex Agora41 Item 84: Help with bad web site
Entered by bdh3 on Fri Apr 12 07:35:21 UTC 2002:

Check out:

http://www.suntimes.com/index/

report if you can load the page successfully to completion or not.  
Note any error messages.  Its been bugging me for a few days that
netscape users are core dumping.

17 responses total.

#1 of 17 by other on Fri Apr 12 11:02:10 2002:

No problem.  Looaded in about 4 seconds.  
[NS 4.79 under MacOS 9.1]

#2 of 17 by fitz on Fri Apr 12 11:54:03 2002:

No problem. Loaded in 15 seconds on prodigy network.

#3 of 17 by md on Fri Apr 12 13:03:49 2002:

No problem, except it turned out to be some boring newspaper and it 
added a popup window advertising oranges or something.

#4 of 17 by scott on Fri Apr 12 13:48:21 2002:

Worked fine for me.  Konqueror 2.2.1 (KDE on Mandrake Linux 8.1).

#5 of 17 by flem on Fri Apr 12 15:51:34 2002:

Speaking of annoying popup windows, (damn, I a drift machine today) what's
up with these ones I've started to see where it pops up a window without a
frame, so that you can't close it, and have to read through the tiny print
to find out how to close it?

#6 of 17 by oval on Fri Apr 12 19:22:47 2002:

took about 30 seconds on a 56k modem with netscape. and i went through japan.
no popup for me though ..

#7 of 17 by rcurl on Fri Apr 12 19:35:25 2002:

Same 30 secs with 56K modem, NS 4.76 on G4 MacOS 9.2.

#8 of 17 by mdw on Sat Apr 13 05:55:45 2002:

Loaded ok for me too (Mosaic 2.7b5).  Quite a lot of really small
images.

#9 of 17 by other on Sat Apr 13 16:37:50 2002:

no frame?  what browser/os/site?

#10 of 17 by jep on Sat Apr 13 16:47:09 2002:

It worked fine for me in Windows 98 SE, IE 5.50.

#11 of 17 by janc on Sun Apr 14 00:42:48 2002:

Mac IE was OK with it.

#12 of 17 by janc on Sun Apr 14 00:44:29 2002:

Hey, you know this is a good scam to boost hit rates on a web page.  If 
you'd sent spam advertising that URL to all of us, none of us would 
have looked at it, but post a message to a technical board saying it 
seems to crash some browsers and you'll like help figuring out which 
ones, and you gets lots of hits.

#13 of 17 by polygon on Mon Apr 15 01:38:12 2002:

Like a dozen or so.  No big deal.

#14 of 17 by ric on Mon Apr 15 01:42:46 2002:

No problem.  Ie 5.5/Win2k

#15 of 17 by jaklumen on Mon Apr 15 04:56:31 2002:

No problem for me here with IE (ver. number)?  Win XP, 52.0Kbps actual 
modem speed.  Not sure with download time-- it seemed to be about less 
than 15 seconds.

I doubt boosting number of hits would be much of a worry here, 
either.  So-- why does this worry you personally, beady?

#16 of 17 by russ on Tue Apr 16 04:03:17 2002:

What's the deal with this bad web site?  Just DOS it and shut it
down early for the night without any backup.

Spare the adb and spoil the server.  People are too soft these days.

#17 of 17 by gull on Tue Apr 16 14:26:21 2002:

Works fine with Mozilla 0.9.9 Win32 build 2002041408.

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