Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to DAVID DRUMMOND <=-

 RJT> David Drummond wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 DD> Doesn't everyone have cable or xDSL nowdays?

 RJT> No!

 WC> Nor here.
 WC> The additional costs cannot be considered reasonable considering
 WC> how often I'd _need_ a wide bandwidth connection.

Just so,  though some people are trying to push it in that direction by the
amount of bloat that's getting added to some web pages.  Take one that's
slow to load and see how often the word "font" shows up in there,
 for one example.

The big thing these days seems to be to use that command over and over and
over again,  along with lots of stuff that's m$-specific,  particularly if
the page was created with front page,  or worse yet,  with m$ word.  No
other software out there will deal with this crap,  but they load it up in
there anyway,  just in case you want to use the same package again.

That and *way* too many images seem to be my major problems with poorly
done web sites these days.  And I guess a poorly-run provider that I used
to use who I *never* connected with any faster than 31200.  Those jerks are
sending that last bit out for collection,  too.  They don't know what sort
of a can of worms they've opened up here...  :-)

BTW,  I told my brother a local access number for the guys I'm using now, 
and he's seeing the same speed difference too,  more or less.  And he isn't
real happy about it.

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