[thelist] home page max size

[aardvark]

> From: "Alliax" <damiencola at wanadoo.fr>
>
> I think 128kb is still fine, if you put an ALT tag on your images,
> your tiptop investor with the 33.6modem would wait.. it's only the
> double of the usually maximum recommended weight for a page.

double?  who's recommended maximum?

over here, our max is 24k... that would make it more than 5 times 
my recommended maximum...

and an alt attribute doesn't mean someone will wait -- it means 
they don't *have* to...