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This is the best letter ever!  The funniest thing I've read in a long time!  Brian got this in the mail yesterday.  (I hope I get one too.)

Check out Brian's post... and always remember: DO govern yourself accordingly!
http://kingfuraday.livejournal.com/248718.html

"Hello from a random person. Not a hacker or anything, just someone you don't know (and neither does this account holder from whom I am writing). Bear411 has no security at all, even a stupid idiot like me can break right in and have full access to anyone's account. Read about it at http://sultmhoor.livejournal.com/44370.html"

"Here's the deal - I am writing an article on Bear411 for A BEAR'S LIFE magazine. Not a hatchet piece, but certainly not a love letter like the interview in our first issue. I'm going to look at the history of the site, the positive and negative aspects, including how Bear411 is run, it's controversial policies regarding profiles and messages, the current movement for a mass exodus on Valentine's Day and April 11, etc.

I'm going to interview users of the site, webmasters of the various anti-Bear411 sites, and hopefully Greg himself if he'll consent."

I'm leaving 411.  Please send me your e-mail address so we can keep in touch.

You can find me here:
tinyurl.com/2krdxz

"Dump 411 Day" is Feb 14:
tinyurl.com/2gmkh3

Greg,

I think your note about Internet Explorer 7 is misleading.

Yale has problems with their own internal business applications. They will need to modify their applications to make them work with IE7. Microsoft isn't going to make any changes that will change anything for Bear411.

it is not... i posted it after someone who experienced problem with the chat after upgrading from IE 6 to IE 7 ...
and he downloaded firefox and told me to advice people about that.

not everybody has problem using IE7 with BEAR411 , i don t know why... but it seems something has changed in their configuration...

WTF!?

I use Firefox myself. Still, I can't help but be angry about this note that appeared on Bear411 today.

Hello, IE7 is still the dominating browser, and people who aren't tech-savvy are going to be misled.

To claim that Yale recommends not using IE is irresponsible. Yale has internal business applications that aren't working.

Then to say "let's hope MS will fix that problems soon" [sic] just kills me. Microsoft isn't going to fix anything that's gonna help Bear411 users.

P.S. Bear411 is working for me in IE7 just fine.  Certainly I don't mind seeing more people switch to Firefox.  I just hate miseducating the public.  It's a pet-peeve of mine.