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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Lee Forrest wrote:
> I didn't mean to suggest that there shouldn't be images. Just not
> videos or sound, which generally require massive files and very
> high bandwidths. And no _gratuitious_ images and no images with
> embedded text.

Do you propose to ban broadcast radio and TV as well so that the bandwidth 
could be used for someone more important?

I listen to internet radio at about 20K signal, which uses far less 
bandwidth than the 10.5MB ATI Windows video driver we went to the library 
to fetch (turns out they also want some large installer which you can only 
download with Windows).  Banning Windows would be far more effective than 
banning sound.
> But "slow" connections are only limitations if you are trying to
> turn the network into a virtual shopping mall and a substitute
> for the boob tube and sound system. A playground for people
> seeking mindless entertainment and a place for merchantile
> websites stoked to the gills with eye and ear candy trying
> to make themselves appear different and superior to their
> competitors, which they are not.

My 56K connection is not adequate for listening to 20K internet radio - it 
keeps cutting out.  Is Bach mindless entertainment?

>
Sindi