Bituah Leumi site: call them!

[Stan Goodman]

At 19:44:19 on Thursday Thursday 15 April 2010, Dotan Cohen 
<dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Bituah Leumi site does not work in Firefox:
> https://b2b.btl.gov.il/b2b/

What a surprise! Neither does the MaccabiOnline site (because "only 
Internet Explorer is sufficiently secure", as I have been informed by 
Maccabi). It was mentioned here not long ago that neither does the Clalit 
site. 

I do not think informing any of these people is an effective approach. 
Maccabi, for example, has told me repeatedly that that they have received 
many complaints, and that they have no plans to accommodate them. I think 
that the ONLY approach that is potentially productive would be to start 
with the State Comptroller (Mevaker haMedina), and make the point that 
even those who are not Windows users pay the same taxes and sick-fund 
feesand are entitled to the same services from the State and 
State-regulated bodies. And then to go on to a court case (doesn't 
somebody have an attorney brother-in-law?) making the same argument. 
Pointing out that we are deprived will cut zero ice, because the voice of 
the small percentage of users of these sites that do not use Windows is 
simply too feeble.

> There is a phone number on that page. Call them next week! Let them
> know that not the whole world uses Windows!

When I mentioned some years ago to the Bezeq business office that I do not 
have Windows on my machine (I had only OS2 then, which would not yet work 
with their ADSL), I was informed that I was talking nonsense, because 
every computer has Windows.

Just as landlords of rental apartments with central heating feel they have 
fulfilled their responsibility by keeping the temperature so high that 
nobody complaints that they are cold, and ignore anybody that prefers not 
to have to perspire in January, none of these sites gives a tinker's dam 
about the few whose browsers don't dig Windowese. Complaining will not 
help.

> While you are at it, if you can figure out to whom to complain about
> this site, then let me know:
> https://www.shaam.gov.il/Shaam_internet/
>
> Thanks!



-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel