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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:10:12 +1030 (CST)

Re: another dammed government site

> The online registration payment page at http://rls.roads.sa.gov.au/
> downright refuses to let you in if you're running linux, your
> browser must tell their server that it's running MacOS or windows. 
> 
> The government's defence for this is that the site is in beta, and
> they can't possibly be expected to support all OS's. Oddly enough,
> this site has been in 'beta' for nearly 3 years now. Ecommerce sites
> everywhere else work with most browsers, leave it up to the
> powers-that-be to choose a system that relies on a specific OS..
> 
> To rub salt into the wound, the error page
> (http://rls.roads.sa.gov.au/Ecomm/BadBrows.html) tells me to
> 'upgrade' my operating system to suit their site..

The icing on the cake with this one, is that the web site only
operates from 5:30am to midnight, Monday to Friday. Furthermore you
can't register anything other than a bog standard alpha numeric car.
(Not sure about motorcycles). I can't use the service, cause I use
Linux, I have a custom numberplate and I register my cars on the
weekend.

However...

It is entirely possible that they could be onto something, so for a
trial period of two weeks the Linuxsa Mail server will only operate
from 05:30 to Midnight, Weeknights, and you can only ask questions
that appear in the Linux FAQ.

OK?

Cheers

Alex!


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Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>

NetCraft Australia
Phone (08) 8338 0888
http://www.netcraft.com.au

"Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare
nor well done." -Ernie Kovacs.

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