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Guess you didn't like our previous suggestion to purchase Word 2004 for
$200...
When you say that you "specifically added Yahoo to the list for ignoring
security settings," are you referring to the Trusted Sites list in IE6?
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dan.gallagher
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:10 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Internet security settings
> Hi folks,
> This is related to tech writing (in my world at least)
> because I use email
> to transfer text from word on the PC to my Mac. Developers
> and engineers
> give me a word .doc, so I extract the text and email it to the Mac for
> implementation into a manual or whatever. It's not very often
> I have to do this though. But something's bugging me.
> I don't worry about viruses too much on the Mac, anyway, on the PC, I
> increased the security settings after the last virus scare,
> but then found
> out I wasn't able to log into Yahoo email. After the settings
> change, Yahoo
> said it needed cookies enabled. So I put the settings back
> to default.
> Still, though I am not able to log into Yahoo email using the
> PC. I don't
> understand it. And I also specifically added Yahoo to the
> list for ignoring
> security settings (win2k).
> So instead of Yahoo, I use hotmail now to send text to my Mac with no
> problem. But it bugs me that yahoo won't work on the pc in my
> office now.
> And I do like to know why things work or don't work.
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