From eric@detritus.phys.wesleyan.edu Fri May 17 10:27:15 1996 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 01:08:31 -0400 From: Eric Buddington To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: You guys rock! I never cease to be amazed at the quality of your programming. I, for one, am fascinated by the under-appreciated low-resolution side of life, the elegance of a monochrome ASCII program that adheres to standards and never dumps core, and works over a 2400 modem. Keep it up! Eric Buddington ebuddington@wesleyan.edu From mail05383@pop.net Tue May 21 14:05:42 1996 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:39:43 -0400 From: mail05383@pop.net To: lynx@trill-home.com Cc: s@nysid.sccsi.com Subject: on lynx 2.5 and inews Hello from NYC, I just down loaded a binary copy of Lynx-2.5 for Aix 3.2.5 and I must say it seems to be a better version than the previous. I have a question about Inews. How can I get a compiled package for Aix 3.2.5 ? Thanks, and hats off to the OPEN SYSTEMS community. -Shastri From aaa227@agora.ulaval.ca Mon Jun 3 02:51:37 1996 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:56:51 +0500 From: aaa227@agora.ulaval.ca To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: Lynx page Hi I'm thrilled to have found such a page. You are doing a great service to people. I think text is just fine. Graphics have never really interested me. Thanks! Suzanne Fortin I extend to you who is reading Quebec City, Canada this .sig the Special Blessing of the Queen of Peace E-mail me for a copy of *Minerva* Our Lady of Medjugorje an e-mail `zine of poetry and opinion From rob@io.com Mon Jun 3 03:30:40 1996 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 02:07:13 -0500 (EST) From: CQ To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: lynx enhanced... I must say, it is nice to see other people who appreciate the concept of content over style. Even though I have Netscape on my machine, and occasionally use it for "recreational browsing" of graphic-intensive pages, for everyday use nothing cuts through the bullshit quite as well as lynx. By the way, I have my own favorite group of people who, like the disabled, can get screwed royally by pages laden with unnecessary images: PDA and wireless users. I use a 200LX palmtop, which has a fairly reasonable HTML browser... while it supports graphics, such things are generally irrelevant when you are looking at a 6" wide screen. Newton users also have a graphic capable web browser, but again there is the small monochrome screen. It gets even more interesting when you consider that some people (a larger number every day) are using tools like this over wireless networks - and if you think browsing "Netscape enhanced" pages over a 28.8kbpd PPP connection is bad sometimes, you should see how bad it gets when you're using a 9600bps wireless modem which is chewing batteries while you wait for that huge imagemap, and all the while you're being charged by the byte for the radio traffic. Applications like this are becoming more and more common, and the "if you don't have netscape you don't deserve to see my K00L page" attitude is going to look sillier and sillier as time goes by... Anyway, my contribution to the list of lynx enhanced pages is http://www.io.com/~rob/hp200lx/ which is my site aimed at HP200LX users. I am aiming at having not only a comprehensive set of links to other sites, but real added value as well... all without graphics. (Although I do plan to design a "Palmtop Ready" icon when I have time, since I always take the time of testing my pages with the palmtop browser.) Also, I have placed my own comments about the whole visual-flotsam-on-the-web issue at http://www.io.com/~rob/boring.htm ... comments are always welcome. --Rob From Equinox@buffnet.net Tue Jul 23 13:32:44 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 5:00:23 EDT From: Equinox@buffnet.net To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: Lynx is my Loh-ry-der for the Web ;) Howdy! I've been using Lynx for awhile now and it occured to me that I should be doing what my Mom told me to do twenty seven years ago when I was three, say thank you. Well, thank you. Its really geewizzbangoneat to see Netscape 9000 plugins for Holosuites, but I'm not about to buy a new computer with each new microprocessor that comes out (hey, I don't get a new car every time the ashtrays fill up). So let them max out the bandwith of phone lines and then go to cable and then...well anyway, I'll be riding along with Lynx because I want the INFORMATION DAMMIT! Not the hype! Nothing is as fast as Lynx, not Nutscrape and not Internet Exploder. Thank you, you have performed a service to mankind equal to...well nothing! Its the greatest thing man has every invented!!! Yeeeha! Equinox , Rats! From jpearl@interlog.com Wed Aug 14 20:38:03 1996 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 21:35:41 -0400 From: jpearl@interlog.com To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/lynx.html Congrats to all the developers behind lynx. It's one of the best internet tools out there and I use it all the time. Keep up the great work. From dsembr01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu Tue Sep 3 03:05:47 1996 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 00:15:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Stuart Embry To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: Lynx --- It's more than just a browser. It's an attitude! Hey! I'm proud to be a Lynx user, I just wanted to show my support and add some more kind words to that growing display of testimony. :) As a World Wide Web user, I got getting sick and tired of having to wait for huge pointless graphics to download over my 28.8kbps connection. Lynx will happily ignore the superficial junk and download just the text, and I see the page right away. That's why it really is a crying shame that I can't use Lynx to visit a lot of sites these days, mostly because of the kind of careless HTML coding of which I was formerly guilty. As an HTML coder I used to put tables and other nifty cool things on my web page. Yes, I was hypnotised by those cool Web thingies back then. But I got sick *real* *quick* of having to making the pages look *just* *right* in Netscape Navigator and also reasonable in Lynx at the same time. I was maintaining two separate versions of my pages at one time, which was a pain. And after getting fed up with not being able to use Lynx to visit certain sites, one day I decided to go back to the basics and stop worrying about layout at all, and now HTML is a breeeeeeeeze. The point of this rant about HTML coding is that the existence of a text-based browser like Lynx has helped me to realise how Netscape- centric my point of view really was and that it was unnecessary for me to continue to make things hard for myself because of it. I learned from my mistakes. Now it's much easier to actively ensure that the pages I work on can be used in text-based browsers like Lynx, and I will always actively encourage others to actively do so. My pages look *fine* under all the browsers with which I test them now, and I'm satisfied now. It's the principle of the whole thing. I mean, I wanna be able to use whatever browser I want to use, be it Netscape Navigator, Lynx, or ``telnet www.foo.edu 80'', and not to have to be restricted to whatever browser some careless HTML coder wrote his nonstandard HTML for. Lynx is more than a web browser. Lynx is truly more than just a tool. Lynx is an attitude. Lynx serves to remind everyone of the true spirit of the World Wide Web, as a platform- and browser-independent protocol for disseminating and hyperlinking information, in an age when other tools seem to be losing touch with it, and when people seem to be losing touch with it. I almost lost touch, but Lynx will forever serve to remind me. I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Lynx. And one more thing... I really like ``lynx -dump'' for printing web pages! It denotes every link with a number, and makes footnotes at the bottom that lists the URLs. Hey, it's about as hyperlinked as you can get on paper. I use it to print Web pages now all the time... -- Darren Stuart Embry * http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~dsembr01/ There's nothing accidental about nasal dairy projection. -- Dr. Science From A.Kooijman@IO.TUDelft.NL Wed Sep 18 20:42:21 1996 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:19:29 +0200 From: A.Kooijman@IO.TUDelft.NL To: lynx@trill-home.com Subject: lynx 2.6 Today I downloaded, compiled and installed lynx2.6 on our sgi systems. No problems at all. You did a great job, especially on handling frames. I was (and am) an enthouiastic vt420/lynx user, so frames were very nasty to me. Keep up the good work! Adrie Kooijman. From johnlim@mail.cyberhq.net.my Wed Sep 18 21:04:17 1996 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 22:53:00 +0800 From: JOHNLIM To: LYNX@TRILL-HOME.COM Subject: Hi Hi ! I've been using Lynx since 2.3 or 2.4 and it's a superb program ! Whenever my friends ask me which browser is better with the onslaught between MS Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, I always tell them Lynx rules ! I prefer to visit pages that focus more on content than flashy graphics, Java schmava etc. Anyway, just a short note to give you guys a pat on the back ! :) --- John Lim Eng Hooi [CoSysOp, Cyber City BBS +603-7587400] * ClubWin M'sia Email [johnlim@mail.cyberhq.net.my] Web [http://www.cyberhq.net.my/johnlim] [ ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done. ] From JLAURET@nucax1.chem.sunysb.edu Sat Jan 11 17:21:38 1997 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 16:02:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jerome LAURET To: lynx-platforms@trill-home.com Subject: http://www.crl.com/%7Esubir/lynx/platforms.html X-URL: http://www.crl.com/%7Esubir/lynx/platforms.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.6 X-Personal_name: Jerome LAURET X-From: jlauret@sbchem.chem.sunysb.edu I just grabbed the 2.6 version of lynx and compiled it on VMS6.1 with no problem at all. I also got it compiled on VAX VMS5.5. I have to congratulate the develloppers not only for their effort in maintaining this code but also to make the build procedure bugless and actually working. Usually, softwares requires quite a bit of modifications for several reasons (OS differences, C compiler version offset etc...). Great job, J.Lauret Assistant System Manager http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/people/jlauret.html ----- Forwarded message from Ferguson Enterprises ----- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:18:45 -0600 (CST) From: Ferguson Enterprises To: Al Gilman Subject: Something cute! Message-ID: Hi Al, How ar you and the folks at the University where Lynx is? I received this cute thing via email today and I just loved it! I thought of you and so I'm sending it to you. Feel free to pass it along! Pat Ferguson Subject: the little gopher & the worldwide web The Gopher, the Lynx, and the World Wide Web Once upon a time, there was an adorable little creature called the Gopher. It knew how to get its hands on all sorts of information. People would call the Gopher and ask it, "Can you tell me about this?" or "Do you know anything about such-and-such?" The Gopher, who was an eager chap and always willing to lend a helping hand, would rush off to find the needed information. Unfortunately, things were growing more complicated for the Gopher. Too many people would call at the same time; people would complain because he couldn't get back to them soon enough or wasn't there when they called. The Gopher became quite surly at times and said, "Come back later, I don't have time to help you right now!" One day, while the Gopher was out hunting information, he noticed an enormous Evil Spider spinning a gigantic web. It came to pass that the web grew bigger until it covered the entire world, and became known as the World Wide Web. The Gopher began to notice little creatures running about on the Web. He learned that these were the minions of the Evil Spider, called Netscape and Mosaic. No matter how fast the poor Gopher ran, he could not catch either Netscape or Mosaic. The Gopher's temper went from surly to down right mean. "It's bad enough that they run faster than I do," he thought to himself, "but I hate their flashy clothes and radical hair styles." Even though Gophers have always disliked those with garish appearances, he was beginning to feel somewhat old and drab. Netscape and Mosaic said dreadful things to the Gopher, like "You're so slow!" or "Why can't you carry pictures like we do?" or "You should think about retiring, you old rodent!" One day, when the Gopher was sitting on a tree stump taking a much needed rest, he saw, to his amazement, a beautiful, silky Lynx speeding along the Web. She didn't wear flashy clothes, her hair was neatly combed, and she didn't seem to be carrying any pictures at all. The Gopher took an immediate shine to the Lynx, and invited her back to his tunnel for tea. "I can't," purred the Lynx, "I'm busy rrrright now." As the Lynx disappeared from view, the Gopher realized that she was like him, except that she could run on the Web and didn't have to dig tunnels. The Gopher was immensely relieved and decided that it was time to retire. He told all his customers to call the Lynx, disconnected his modem, had his accountant liquidate all his assets, and moved to a snug little tunnel in Florida. THE END ----- End of forwarded message from Ferguson Enterprises -----