On 7 Feb 2007 at 22:35, Bill Gillooly wrote:
> This argument had merit when everybody had 1,200bps modems and we
> weren't sending 100MB video feeds around the world.
Watch it Bill, even in the USA there are still plenty of folks so far
from civilisation/urban-infrastructure that anyone spoiled by
ISDN/ADSL/whatever would cry going back to that situation....
Where cellphone grids have gaps, there hardly is any provider willing
to invest in datalines either....
> Tight cropped or not cropped, you couldn't even tell the difference in
> the amount of data that moves over the Internet.
It does get significant if quotes get endlessly repeated, which is
almost doomed to happen in longer threads and reverse-quoting.
And I won't stand by and let that happen, if only to keep the digests
clean and readable.
> If W-J is hosting this on some old computer with a tiny hard drive,
> let's all chip in a buck ad buy him a 120GB drive that will never fill
> up with mail.
It has very little to do with bandwidth/capacity at the server-
side....but all with courtesy towards those in the outback.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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