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Date:	Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:59:56 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Offline fix Unfixed

In <20050910194019.49161.qmail@web81406.mail.yahoo.com>, on 09/10/05
at 12:40 PM, J R FOX said:

>Ah, O.K. -- just using the browser automatically
>changes certain things, whether you want it to or not
>?

This appears to match reality.

>(I was going to ask whether certain sites can mess
>with your settings, no matter what you do ?)

Mozilla is pretty good a preventing this. IE on the other hand...

>It would
>be nice if you could designate certain settings with
>the equivalent of a "Read Only" attribute, to protect
>them against unwanted change.

This is already the case for the settings that are defined as user-owned.
Some of what you consider settings are really status flags.

>Or is that what the
>User file is for ?

:-)

>Still, I'm not alone in concluding that this Offline
>thing is a BUG !

Do you have a bug # to substantiate this statement?

Steven

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