Subject: Re: If you don't use NetScape... :-( From: R Ballard Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 03:54:45 -0400 (EDT)
How the Web Was Won
Subject: Re: If you don't use NetScape... :-( From: R Ballard Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 03:54:45 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 4 May 1995, Josh Hartmann wrote:

> >The number of downloads stats for a new site I put up  last month showed
> >that only 3 out of every 5 users (60%)downloaded the 16K .gif file that was
> >on the welcome page. That obviously means that 2 out of every 5 users did
> >not see the my client's book cover.

> Nope. In modern browsers, images are generally cached persistently, whereas
> text isn't. That can account for part of what you're seeing.
Notice that he was referring to a welcome page.

> 
> (I'm spending *far* too much time posting today.)
> 
> -Josh
> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Josh Hartmann       Webmaster, The Virtual Garden http://pathfinder.com/vg
> Time Life Inc.       Kai's Power Tips & Tricks http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT

Your URL -- Killed Mosaic 2.5
This is what you got:
Congratulations, you have found a bug in
NCSA Mosaic 2.5 on DEC Ultrix.

If a core file was generated in your directory,
please run 'dbx Mosaic' (or 'dbx /path/Mosaic' if the
Mosaic executable is not in your current directory)
and then type:
  dbx> where
and mail the results, and a description of what you were doing at the 
time,
to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu.  We thank you for your support.

...exiting NCSA Mosaic now.

Illegal instruction (core dumped)

THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(pardon me if I avoid time-life URLs for a while :-(


	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 03:59:01 1995