Mark Willis wrote:

>   If all you want is e-mail and basic web surfing, an old XT to 386 or
> such and Net-Tamer can get you running,

  Enlighten me?  What is Net-tamer?  A basic browser like Lynx IIRC?

  What is *really* needed as a net-tamer is a browser which loads only
text and perhaps graphics under a certain size, then lets you right or
middle-click on the dummy icons over the graphics to bring up only the
ones you want.

  My wife (who is not Internet-friendly to start with) was trying to
read a (local) Yellow Pages listing yesterday, but the server is
massively under-powered for one, and the listings are spam-centred.
She gave up in disgust.  A text browser would have given the real
information and no more.

  I have learnt to disable Javascript and *most* of the parasites go
away, though Netscape 3 still suffers from one or two it seems and
hasn't proper (global) cookie-rejection.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.