Mike Spurgeon wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:Mike Spurgeon wrote:schmidtd wrote:My pet usenet peeve, since we're discussing them: quoting an article in its entirety.Get used to it. The great unwashed masses that showed up sometime after 1985 or so are clueless about bandwidth considerations...And in a world dominated by graphic web pages, text is never a bandwidth consideration... ;-)Sure it is. We're talking usenet, which by tradition is all text. It's a hidden cost that everyone pays for...
Sorry, Mike, but that's "old think". Text is a negligible part of Internet bandwidth, just as voice is a neglegible part of bandwidth to the home. Never waste time worrying about effects under 1% unless all larger effects have already been optimized. -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."