Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/04/07 04:03

rf wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
> news:slrnfiqjpu.i2o.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
>> rf wrote:
>
>>> Oh, BTW, do not publish an image to the web that is over half a megabyte.
>>> It's a waste of my bandwidth and yes, sometimes I pay $0.25 per megabyte.
>>
>> I don't pay per use,
>
> Neither do I usually, except when someone lets loose on google maps and uses
> up my 3 gig/month :-(

I don't do Google Maps.

>> but with that kind of huge image, I still move on
>> and another site gets my attention and/or money.
>
> Indeed. Even on cable it's easy enough to see the image arriving in slices
> and to press the stop/back button. Dial up people have *already* gone
> elsewhere :-)

Aye.

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