Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| reply to TeMerc
Re: Site Advisor: Helping To Decide Good\Bad Sites
I joined the beta test team. I can't submit a download for analysis. I get a blank page in Fx.  But I can submit a comment about the site. Anyone know how I can submit a download?
Site Advisor has great potential I think. I was impressed that there is a Fx edition. I figured I'd have to use IE to be a tester but no there is a Fx edition. 
I already found a red (bad) site. Interestingly, it is closed and I'm wondering if the bad rating had anything to do with that. It is a Comet Cursor site that is/was an affiliate of ThemeWorld and ThemeDoctor (both of which rate clean with SiteAdvisor which I knew would). But the Comet Cursor affiliate site is a nasty one unless you like Comet Cursor. This site that is rated red by SiteAdvisor gave a link to cursorcafe.com. I was suspicious, but SiteAdvisor rates it clean. However, SiteAdvisor says there are no downloads at the site. Of course there are! I downloaded (in IE) the CursorCafe Installer but declined the Starware Toolbar. The toolbar privacy policy is ok but I am still suspicious. I did get a great white tiger cursor that works in Fx also. I installed it on my VMWare guest machine not my main machine.
I'm wondering what happens when SiteAdvisor rates a site red and the site decides to sue over the rating. Is SiteAdvisor going to be able to withstand that sort of thing?
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