On Friday 28 January 2005 19:05, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:54:45PM -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: >> As unfortunate as it is, my bank for e-banking services REQUIRES >> (via UsetAgent string) IE and/or Netscape 7.x. That's just plain >> stupid, I've told them to only check the Mozilla part of the >> string so users with other Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox or >> Opera can also access the sites... They do not listen. > >Keep trying -- it takes a long time for big institutions to change. > For a long long time, one of the large financial institutions I use > had the same problem, but after several years, suddenly they had a > site redesign that was basically standards-compliant and had no > such arbitrary checks. And sometimes they can move with surpriseing speed. Back when my bank wsa just getting started, they were IE only. And I was using IBrowse on an amiga at the time. It only took 2 messages to get it fixed to where I could log into my account and send my bill paying checks out electronicly, which I'm still doing today with mozilla. It helped that I mentioned I had a 5 figure amount on deposit, maybe, maybe not. I've found that most banks whose initials aren't BOA, can be moderatly co-operative when the advantages are pointed out to them. BOA is another horse entirely, and my interface with them has always been disastrous. Twice, at a cost of probably $1000 or more for both times was enough. Recycled account number problems it would take them weeks to fix, in the meantime I've got $1500 in bouncing checks that are costing me (then=1980) $10 a bounce attempt, all of which are going into your credit report of course. They had my paycheck, I had the receipt, but the account was overdrawn by thousands. Some of that haunted me for a decade or more, clear across the friggin country. It sure feels good when you quit beating your head against that particular stone wall. > >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, > hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 > <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
