>WORKING HYPOTHESIS.
>*All* IE users and *no* Netscape users can get through to:
>    ftp://topo.math.u-psud.fr/pub/lcs/fb/FBdigests2000/FBD_0600.gz
>and various shortenings thereof.

There are other, and perhaps better, browsers than Nestcrape or
InternecineExploder. iCab works for the above URL.

See http://www.icab.de/ for a free download of this engaging new browser
(incredibly, only 1.1MB). It has the nice feature of not installing
thousands of incomprehensibly-named files all over your hard disk.

Robert P.