FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] [OT] What I am using is invalid

["Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi folks:

While listening to xmradio online (http://www.xmradio.com) I am
sometimes very rudely interrupted by the recorded message of a 
really snitty male voice saying:  "What you are using for 
attempting to access this media is invalid.  Please contact your 
content provider for a new listing of methods for accessing this 
resource."

Well, what I am using is NOT invalid.  I'm using Mozilla Firefox 
and sometimes Mozilla SeaMonkey, running under linux, to access 
xmradio online.  Works fine, except for the occasional rude 
interruptions.  Hey, it works, so how can it be invalid?

And it's not like I hacked into the resource.  I am a bonafide paid 
subscriber to xmradio.  They know who I am.  To listen online I had 
to provide them with my email address and my xmradio ID number.
Non-subscribers may sign up to listen online for free to xmradio,
but only for 30 days.  I will suppose that anyone may get away with 
being a devious cheater and sign up again after 30 days by using
any one of his alteranate email addresses for signing up again and 
again after every thirty days. 

BTW, their web site says that it is designed for the listening 
pleasure only for users of Windows XP computers and for users of the
latest and greatest Macintosh systems, but definitely not for linux 
users.

BTW, I can listen to xmradio online even in a pure DOS-only machine 
simply by booting to a Puppy Linux CD and running the included 
Mozilla SeaMonkey web browser for going to their web site. The 
entire Puppy Linux OS runs in a ramdrive.  It has a feature for
automagically saving all of your settings and all of your stuff on 
your hard drive.  This puppy will automagically retrieve all of your
settings and all of your stuff on the next boot-up.  Works great, 
even in systems that have only 132MB of RAM.  That dog hunts, and it 
runs much faster than a typical Window$ XP OS running around in 
circles and chasing its tail and thrashing its hard drive. 

What is invalid about that?  Works fine for me, even though the guy 
with the snitty voice says that what I am using is invalid.

All the best,

Sam Heywood       
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