"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
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from "Martin Sykes" contains
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Off topic, but does it really take longer to download longer posts?

I know the answer is intuitively 'yes', but since upgrading to
broadband,
I've noticed no improvement in the time take to download news. My e-mail
flies now but news is still the same speed so it looks like most of the
time
spent downloading news is not actually spent in the transfer of the data
but
in some other task.

Seems odd. I'd expect news to be quicker too - unless you're using
something web-based.

Any ideas anyone?

And if only everyone top-posted, we wouldn't have to scroll down through
it
all ;-)

If everyone top-posted I for one would just delete it all unread, as I'm
hootered if I'm going to scroll down to see the context and then return
to the top to read the answer.

And moreover, if it had been top-posted more than once, you would have to
scroll down more than once to search for the context.
The netiquette rule of posting in- line was not invented just for the joke.


Anything top-posted which isn't immediately understood just gets
deleted. Anyone who always top-posts just gets plonked. I just CBA.

And I deliberately did not snip, because all of the thread as it stands is
still context.

Franz