[ Roger Wiegand wrote in 171127 MMDigest:

> The days of limited bandwidth are far behind us; anyone with a
> slow connection can simply set their reader to ignore the links.

For the first time ever I will disagree with Roger Wiegand, and I do
so just as a point of clarification.  Many, many of us have limited
bandwidth.  Even though we live inside a sizeable city, there is no
cable service; U-verse, WiMax, fiber, etc. aren't available.  Our
only options for the 100 houses or so within a mile of here are
satellite Internet and cellular hotspots.

The speed is just barely enough to view a YouTube video.  The going
price is about $10 per gigabyte.  You would be surprised how fast a
gigabyte gets used up on sites that push advertising and flash content.
The cable and fiber companies won't even talk to us.

The bottom line here is that I like MMD because the text format does
not use a lot of data and is not slow.  There would be ads in my email
if I didn't have a very strong ad blocker.

Mike Schoeppner