On Wednesday 27 March 2002 18:00, Randy Kramer wrote: > Hanan Shargi wrote: > > As for those who are charged for their connection by the BITs and > > BYTES,,, uummmmm ,,, perhaps its time for them to switch ISP's ??? > > As someone else has mentioned, people in foreign countries don't > necessarily have any option available that allows "free" unlimited > download from the Internet.
And we should remember that in most countries, local calls are not free as they are in America. I have a free Internet connection, but until recently it was going through my normal phone line, charged at the normal phone rate (and Turkey apparently has the highest phone charges in Europe). OTOH, we should keep things in proportion. A text e-mail is usually around 1K (this one is 750 bytes so far). Even a small JPEG image is at least 5K, and a decent-sized one can be 50-100K. Opening a typical web page with a couple of banner ads is going to take up at least 30K (unless you disble graphics or use lynx, of course!). IMHO, the real wasters of bandwidth are not people who make irrelevant posts, they are people who spam you with graphic-heavy HTML mails, and well-intentioned friends who think you might find the attached 1.5M powerpoint slideshow amusing. Sir Robin
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