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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Idea for tool preview on mouseover...
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2002-03-09 8:41:58
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> On Thu,  7 Mar 2002 13:18, Sean Pecor wrote:
> 
> > Not really. However, I can see particular scenarios where the
> > cacheing can be beneficial. Say you're looking at
> > http://www.lwn.net/daily, and while you open up STORY A in a new
> > window to read, the other browser window is reading in the links for
> > the next 'N' stories.
> 
> Great, so I have to download not only the stories that I DO want to
> read, but also the stories that I DON'T want to read. Fantastic.
> > So, when you get back to the daily page,
> > clicking on subsequent stories renders the page instantaneously.
> > Sure, we eat up some bandwidth, but bandwidth is cheap isn't it?

Hi,

If we could move away from the client perspective to the server
perspective, I would probably have to shut down KDE.com if every one
that came there with Konqueror decided to fill their pipes with
dynamically-generated webpages.  I simply can't afford an S390 and a T3
line on a free (free being to the user only) site so you can save a
second when you want to view a page.

Oh, and please send me your address.  Since bandwidth is so "cheap", I'm
sure you won't mind paying my bandwidth bills :-/.

> 
> Sure it is. If someone else is paying for it.
> 
> > Grin. Our time isn't.

Then get a faster connection.  That doesn't kill the server, but
downloading a rash of pages you will never view as a matter of policy is
called "abuse" in my book.

Ciao,

Dre

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