Colored Backgrounds

[Steve Lamb]

Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 10:35:30 AM, Cristian wrote:
> If I am staying (say) 6 hours, browsing few porn sites, with minimum
> (say) 4 simultaneous Netscape sessions, with preferences ->
> 'Automatically load images' = checked (on), the traffic to my ISP is
> many-many times greater than all my received mail over one month,
> excluding attachments (if any).

    *sigh*  What about the load on the computer that handles the mail?  That
too, is "bandwidth."

> *THIS* is waste of bandwidth. The stress of my ISP's server handling my
> browsing is significant, at the same time the handling of my mail
> traffic represents *nothing*.

    Incorrect.  The servers do nothing when you browse, just the routers.  The
mail server has no part of that.

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