[geeks] [Fwd: [IP] Red Cross needs network security tech volunteers]

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>Date: Tue Sep 13 13:44:09 CDT 2005
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] [Fwd: [IP] Red Cross needs network security tech volunteers]

>On 9/13/05, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Dan Duncan wrote:
>> > Tell me about it.  Both my credit union and my credit card
>> > company have taken major steps backwards and "updated" their
>> > websites recently so that after literally years of working JUST
>> > FINE with Opera, Mozilla, or Firefox they no longer do.
>>
>> Yup.  State Farm did this a few months back.  I could no longer log in
>> to access my State Farm Bank account, or to pay my bill online.  Telling
>> them that it had worked just fine with Firefox for years just got a rote
>> response that they didn't support Firefox.  Asking why they didn't
>> support the second most widely used Web browser on the 'net just got the
>> same response.
>>
>> So I closed my State Farm Bank account, and I now pay my insurance bill
>> by mail, so it takes them longer to get their money.  Sucks to be them.
>
>If enough people vote with their feet, it'll change.  Problem is getting
>all the internet n00bs to vote with their feet.

Nadine, problem is, the n00bs ARE VOTING with their feet - you just don't like how they are voting! ;^)

Lionel