A message that is cross posted is like a flyer that has been stapled on corkboards all over the Philadelphia region when the flyer only needs to be read by people here on the Rutgers campus. Blatantly cross posting a message into newsgroups where it does not belong can result in your electronic mailbox being filled with angry messages from users of the affected newsgroups. Computers running Web server software send text, graphics, and files to computers running Web browser software. The two browsers that Rutgers uses are Netscape and Lynx . Netscape is a graphical browser, and it will display text and graphics, and let you activate a hyperlink by clicking on it with the mouse pointer.
Lynx is a text-only browser.
A web page's text is displayed, but any special fonts, colors, formatting, and graphics included on the page will not be displayed. It will display the same text that Netscape will, but that's about it. There is online help available while running Lynx. Online documents for Netscape on the PCs, Macs, and Suns are available through the online Help system. This is because the PC workstations require users to authenticate before allowing them access to the software.