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From: Andrew Arch
Date: Oct 31, 2004 5:18PM

Hi Annmarie,

In Australia it has been estimated that 30% of our rural population browses
the Web with graphics off due to slow telecommunications [1]. I'm sure this
is similar in many other parts of the world too. If you give people in this
situation the option of a good experience with their graphics off, then
you'll save you own bandwidth too.

While things are slowly improving here, the National Farmers Federation tell
me that there is still a long way to go!

Cheers, Andrew

[1] http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/00-13.pdf (NB a 260kb PDF file)