finding netscape versions (was netscape quitting)

[Carole Leita]

The way to avoid all the Netscape Web pages hoo-hah, and yet get the 
software from the official source, is to go directly to Netscape's FTP 
site. From ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/ you can get versions 
4.03 on - all flavors. If you want older, go to 
ftp://archive:oldies@archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html - their 
products archive.  Back in the old days when they were releasing a new 
version every few months it was also good to know that you could go to 
servers ftp2 through ftp8 if the main FTP server was busy.

Carole Leita
Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet, http://lii.org/
InFoPeople Trainer/Consultant, http://infopeople.org/

At 01:36 AM 3/26/2000 -0800, Stacy Pober wrote:
>Incidentally, when looking for older versions of Netscape to download, I
>generally have the best luck in using a search engine like altavista and
>searching with a command something like:
>+netscape +4.61 +download -netscape.com
>I get rid of netscape.com because otherwise most of the results are
>pages that say something like, "and you can dowload Netscape 4.61 from
>[link to Netscape home page]"   Some of the older versions are archived
>on Netscape's site, but they bury the links so well, I get weary poking
>around for them.  It's easier to get a copy from another site.