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VM Customers
Are any other VM Customers having serious difficulties browsing including the following:
- Pages not loading, requiring a refresh
- Pages timing out consistently
- Pages loading in Plain Text only
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I'm on the old NTL portion of the network (in the Midlands) and have been seeing the above for a good few weeks now.
For reference, I am using Firefox 2 and I have seen the behaviour whilst running Windows Vista, and with Ubuntu and SUSE linux distributions, and so I doubt it is a software related issue.
Also, in the spirit of helping out, I've just posted this to the BBC Webwise feedback section.
Sirs,
Whilst using google to research the new spyware program called Webwise that BT and other major internet providers are planing to implement, the first thing I came across was your very own BBC beginner's guide to the internet.
I am concerned that a prestigious public funded organisation such as yourselves are allowing your good name to be associated with such an intrusive and underhanded venture. In my mind, and in the minds of many others, Webwise will always be connected with the BBC and I hate to think that people will be duped into clicking YES on any pop-up invitation box simply because they have come to trust your advice and will assume that you are sponsoring the new scheme.
Please, for the safety of many innocent webusers, the very webusers your site is aimed at informing, I am urging you to look further into this pernicious hijacking of your reputation.