I’m sorry I don’t get
this?
The internet is “free”
okay,
well nothing is ever totally free in life so we pay a small price somewhere
for
it with Yahoo it’s the adverts we get, so what, big deal! I browse
the
internet and get bombarded with ads for casinos, XXX sites and X-Cams daily
>from
however, I do appreciate that, like FTA TV, someone somewhere has to foot
the
bill for all that you can do with the internet. No one likes
“in-your-face”
adverts but I don’t think that Yahoo is too bad, there are worse out
there and anyway, the internet is changing and evolving, commercialisation
was
inevitable and it is IMO, unstoppable if the internet is to flourish and
grow
beyond what it is today.
Like Mark I cannot understand this
fascination
for bandwidth, it defeats me totally and, in fact, I reckon that having to
be
online to read mail or a forum is a big minus point in terms of bandwidth.
Even
five to ten years ago I though this and, even then, used POP3 mail in
preference to an online type simply as I could dial in, get my mail, log
off
and sit and read it at my leisure rather than hogging a phone line to trawl
through posts.
K.
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Message-----
From: Mark Harrison
[mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May
2002
11:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Forum
Alpha
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In this world of fixed-price internet links, I don't understand the
difference
between bandwidth "wasted" by downloading an easily-ignored
advert,
and bandwidth "wasted" be leaving the computer connected to the
internet while you read an email.
This isn't 10 years ago, where usage costs were an
issue.