Re: FAQ for this group?

Well said Don. I currently live in Ireland, although I'm from the UK. For
reasons of money (as usual), and company politics (as usual), and the fact
that much of Ireland is still very rural, broadband has a low coverage here.
The best I can get is an ISDN (64k). I happen to be a computer professional
but that doesn't help one bit in this area.

I just love it when someone sends me a 12Mb picture of their dog, and
Outlook Express immediately tries to download it. Or, as a friend from the
US once did, sends me 6 copies of the same 10Mb photo. Arhhh!

Tony Proctor

"Don Moody" <dpmoody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:JPOdnSzUhJFQwKHaRVnyiwA@xxxxxxxxx

"Jeff" <jorg826@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:rCo_i.18813$8S5.18753@xxxxxxxxxxx
Don Moody wrote: I
suspect you'd get a lot of flak from the old hands if you did
publish with that frequency. There are still people around who have
no broadband and don't take kindly to repetitious material which
costs to download every time.


That dog won't hunt.

Anybody without broadband would, if they have even a modicum of
computer savvy only download headers and then only download messages
of interest.

Unfortunately the dog will hunt. There are parts of the world
broadband has not reached and where people have a choice of dial-up or
nothing. And in those parts there are people who are *not* 'computer
savvy', and moreover don't want to be computer savvy.

There is no more reason to require computer users to be 'savvy' than
there is to require nobody to drive a car unless they can explain in
detail the free-radical branching chain reactions which happen in
petrol/air mixtures of appropriate composition when an spark passes
through. Most people are quite happy to get in the car and go from A
to B.

It is long long overdue that those who claim that anything can be done
by tweaking the machine, its programs, or its method of use - with the
aid of enough savvy - realised that they are a tiny minority of
computer users.

In particular, old folk living in the country and passing their time
with doing genealogy and emailing the kids and grandkids, do not need
to be computer system maintenance engineers and programmers. And these
people get in knots when some nitwit sends a set of uncompressed
graphics. You try downloading 10 graphics of a megabyte or more each
when you are on a 16k nominal line, actual 4-5k, and are paying by the
second. It still happens, believe it or not, in places no more than 4
miles from my address.

I have broadband and fast computers. I also have the manners to
realise that others don't have, and can't have, the same.

Don




.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: FAQ for this group?
    ... costs to download every time. ... Anybody without broadband would, if they have even a modicum of ... savvy', and moreover don't want to be computer savvy. ... You try downloading 10 graphics of a megabyte or more each ...
    (soc.genealogy.britain)
  • Re: BBC considers reducing DTT picture quality
    ... bandwidth caps will also go up dramatically compared to what they ... about bandwidth caps and broadband download speeds. ... So how are people going to download HD films?? ...
    (uk.media.tv.misc)
  • Re: timing downloads late at night
    ... transferred data between computers. ... If I lived in a place without broadband I would look for service from my ... Don't download stuff at other times. ... Satellite service isn't great for bandwidth. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Trouble Playing You Tube
    ... I will be getting broadband in the near ... But, if you are very, very patient, if is possible that the entire video may ... it might be possibly to play it without delays. ... However, if you are patient, you might be able to download a single video, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: Why Doesnt Adobe Tell The Truth?
    ... This includes dial-up people and means mostly text and limited ... I can't even download it. ... These usually-youthful geeks assume everyone has broadband, ... loaded with graphics, flash animation, and crap is very lacking in the ...
    (misc.consumers)