Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:20:32 -0700, Arri London >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >The modem *is* 56 K. It's the phone service that is 26.4. Can't change
>> >that without paying much more. I'm not bothered by it although some of
>> >my friends are LOL. I've been teaching them not to send me large,
>> >hi-res images...
>>
>> so they post them somewhere like picasa or tiny pic for you?
>
> In order to see a picture (or anything else) on your computer, you have to
> download it. It doesn't matter whether it's an Email attachment or a web
> page, it has to be downloaded over the connection. Of course, people

There actually is a difference. If I get a link in email, I can follow it
at my leisure, tying up my dialup bandwidth when it's not needed for
something with higher priority to me. If I get a large attachment in
email, that ties up my dialup bandwidth then, even if I'm trying to do
Usenet or am trying to do research with my browser.


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