The Saturday 2004-11-06 at 17:24 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Arguments about "bandwidth" are irrelevant. The Internet has vastly much more capacity than is used, and there's miles and miles of dark optical cable that can simply be turned on when the demand presents itself.
Then perhaps you¡d be happy to suply me with an all optical link from my home to the telco? I have only seen copper on my block. I have to use a modem and a telephone, and i have to pay each single minute of the connection, plus the full first minute in advance. And html, although might be nice, makes every email thrice as big. Check this: -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 288 2004-11-08 00:20 p1 -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 818 2004-11-08 00:20 p2 p1 is the text part of the OP, p2 is the html part. See the difference? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson