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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:34:07 +1030

Re: another dammed government site

Alex Garner wrote:
> 
> > 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 icing on the cake with this one, is that the web site only
> operates from 5:30am to midnight, Monday to Friday. Furthermore you

I've been trying to use this thing for years, it used to be limited to
between soemthing like 10am and 4pm for payments .. suspiciously like
they actually had a human teller on the other end of the web interface.

> 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.

Custom numberplates seem to create all sorts of troubles in their
systems .. the worst part is that if *they* stuff up the mailout to
remind you that your custom plate is about to expire (since it's not
part of your normal registration) then the plate is up for grabs, and if
someone else registers it, you lose!

John Edwards

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