yeah so now I wait until 2012 hi hi.  good luck!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: Electronic FCC Filing


>         I sure hope this !@%# mess is cleaned up some how before
> 2008 when I have to renew.  I'm not holding my breath.
>
>         I, and probably many of us can find sighted help to do
> this, but isn't that totally ridiculous?  Just once, I'd like to
> say, "Wow!  That's really neat," rather than what I usually say
> which if not tempered would get me kicked off the list for life.
>
>         I had a pleasant, but utterly unproductive correspondence
> with a lady from the FCC a year or two ago regarding this
> situation and I suggested a couple of fixes.  One was an
> automated template mechanism similar to the mechanism that some
> domain registrars use if one wants to register an Internet domain
> via email.  The idea is one fills in the template, sends it in,
> and the computer kicks it back to you if you failed to complete
> it correctly.  It is all done by email and was done this way in
> the dark ages of the eighties or so so you know it doesn't take
> much computing power.
>
>         The other suggestion was simply a web page that could be
> filled in from lynx that didn't require javascript.
>
>         Of course, nothing happened and we have what we have
> today.
>
>         I have been working and playing with computers for
> twenty-three years as of this month and I admit to being hard to
> please.  UNIX pleases me a lot more than Microsoft does, because
> access under Windows is still sold separately and the very reason
> we are having this discussion is that even those of you who did
> by in to Windows can't make this public system work for you
> without help.  That isn't access. Q E D.  For those who didn't
> run across the expression Q E D in geometry, it stands for 3
> words in Latin which escape me at the moment but which mean
> "to be proven."  In other words, when you prove that a triangle
> is a right triangle, you can put Q E D after the proof.
>
>         Believe me, I am not trying to start one of those
> religious wars about whose operating system is better, because
> it is a pointless argument since Windows is very accessible for
> those applications for which access has been planned, and there
> are some tasks in UNIX that at least appear easier based on what
> I hear people talking and complaining about.
>
>         My point is that this public system bought with tax-payer
> Dollars doesn't appear to work for any screen reader users or at
> least if it does, it is not a trivial task.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
>
> Barbara Lombardi writes:
> >yes but it would be good to have someone sighted with you because you
have
> >to download a java plug-in for your browser--internet explorer. got
renewal
> >in a couple of days.
>