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Re: cnn.com cuts graphics (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Tue Sep 11 15:44:21 2001
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From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:39:56AM -0400, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> cnn.com has switch to very low graphics, in a very good response to the
> congestion they have to be experiencing.
CNN.com has had a graceful degradation process in place for some years,
but this is the hardest I've *ever* seen them cut it (logo and text;
that's it.)
Google also has a cached version of an earlier page, with a front page
link.
(I'm not on-list at the moment; feel free to repeat)
Cheers,
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