[G4] More Mac Discrimination

[Scott]

AOL caches them on your hard drive. After a while your hard drive is 
full, and it is a pain to clear.
Scott

sr ferenczy wrote:

> you dont want that crap anyway!  basically all it is doing is extra 
> compression/caching sites on the ISPs servers.  So if you view sites 
> with static content, you might see a small "speed" increase (its 
> actually just a decrease in the SIZE rather than increase in speed) 
> dynamic web pages (news, weather, etc) will not really load any faster.
>
> this is the same idea that AOL runs off of, and CompuServe did...  now 
> smaller ISPs are starting to do it too... (i think juno or net zero or 
> one of them does it also)
>
> Its all a waste of money in my opinion.
>
> sandor
>
>
>
> On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 03:31  PM, Richard Kriss wrote:
>
>> More Mac discrimination issues. My ISP just announced a new call Xtreme
>> Speed but is it for PC users only
>>
>> http://www.gbronline.com/gbr_prod/GBR_Xtreme.asp
>>
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