text vs html posts on this list...

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:39, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Carlos Davila wrote:
> [...]
> The other argument was that folks 
> > with dialup connections will have lengthy downloads...it's not clear 
> > just how much longer it takes a typical html post to download on a 56k 
> > connection than on a broadband connection, probably not much longer.
> [...]
> 
> The fact that hard drives and internet
> connections are cheap where *you* live does not mean that this is the
> case for everybody on this list.


I agree.. and by saying those 2 words, I've already added to the # of
additional bits for ppl with accounts that count by bytes transferred to
suffer.

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