Subj : BACK IN BUSINESS
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Mon Feb 14 2005 09:42 am

-> Hello Tom - 

-> >>> For general WWW browsing 56k dialup is quite good most of
-> >>> the time. :-) 

-> ->> This is true, according to my Memory of when i had a 56K
-> ->> Modem. 

-> TW> But more and more Web sites are shutting out Dial Up users
-> TW> with al lthe "Fluff" and advertizing. The one that Maddens
-> TW> me is my Local Paper, The San Diego Union Tribune. I have
-> TW> been using the site since it's early days and they have
-> TW> choked it up so much over the years that is is about
-> TW> Unusable with a 56K modem. :-( :-( :-( 

-> What you say about all the 'fluff' is true. You could try
-> LINKS2 or get the addon for FireFox 'adblock'. 

Yeah there are very few sites that annoy me at 49,333 running 
Mozilla in Linux.

Tom's hardware page no longer annoys and it is pretty bad in that
respect.
Currently my worst offender is my own ISP.

Type in the URL the for the home page you get redirected to an
advertizement for DSL. 
Go from the Ad to home next link is online services, from there
you go to usage ( used to be online hours manager and easy to get to),
next you hit the link offering Q&A usage or usage, click usage.
Now the screen loads Blank so you hit reload and it's STILL blank, 
now hit back one URL and the summery of my month's online usage
finally appears.  
Click details and it says "message sent to my e-mail address"
but that hasn't worked since it's been _improved_. 
Oh yeah, left out the login step.

Oh yeah this is SOOO much better than the old "online hours manager"
right on the old GTE home page before it became Verizon ISP :-(
Add to this they are always moving stuff around so you burn time
just finding it and if you find it it's often "under construction for 
improvement" :-( 

Makes you want to just strangle someone.
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