On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:13 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:14, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > Really, we're discussing _this list_. > > > > OK, then, as I said earlier - even if this list were to triple in size > > from HTML, we're still talking about 45MB transfer per month. Heck - > > let's say it increases ten-fold to 150MB/month. I say again - "big > > deal." > > For some of is it truly is. If it were all at once, I could see it being prohibitive. But 150MB over the course of the whole month is still very much do-able on dial- up. Not pleasant to be sure, but do-able. I downloaded Slackware back in '95 over dial-up, and it was significantly more than 150 megs. I didn't like it very much, but there were no show-stoppers in doing it. Thomas
