Got the offer last monday. One needs to sign up on their web site to get an
additional $10. I tried and tried to hack into their broken web site, and got
as far as getting the temporary password, (this was the first difficult hurdle
and had to use a VMS utility to send the http transaction with the parameters
of the first  form that didn't work, then manually parse the output (html) and
then I was able to use netscape to enter the temporary passowrd and my
passowrd, and then went on to the next page where I entered my email address,
but when i clicked the overly complex equivalent of the simple "submit" it
brought be back to the initial (broken) page.

Putting the subscription pages through the validator.w3.org showed that the
teenage windwos programmers at Fido haven't finished their HTML course yet and
are using plenty of non-compliant tags. And of course, their abuse of
javascipt is really the cause of my problems.

Interestingly ,I tried the signup page from my siemens phone, and the fido
gateway was able to convert most of the page, including the images to WML,
except for the javascript stuff (such as the gloriofied submit button) and the
input field when one entered the phone :-) Costed me 35kb of download, or a
whopping $1.05 if I were on the $0.03 per kb plan.

So, very frustrated, I sent an email to the fido support. (or and by the way,
fido's teenage programmers also don't know about the standard "webmaster"
email address for a web site, there is/was no webmaster@fido.ca.

So, they signed me up manually, but didn't give me the $10 that I deserve
because I tried so hard to hack their illformed web site to get my
subscription in. So not only did I fail to get that extra $10, but I am also
out $1.05 of WAP usage.

BTW, did anyone get more than 80 fido dollars in their letter ?

They do have this, even better.. if you've spent that much with fido, call
them, they'll prolly give you a 7210 for free.  :)

Ron.