I have noticed a number of Folk club sites using Flash - some who should know better.

Invariably they take minutes (think 3 - 5) to load on 56K and must have been created by people on broadband.

Almost all do not provide text while they load or links to by-pass the movie.
There are a lot of non-broadband users and quite a few without Flash (like me- out of choice). Some of these site ask me to link to them and don't even reply when I request a return link.

What I was looking for was a way to distinguish slow (large pictures) from Flash movies without resorting to proving it really is the world wide wait. On my site I prefer to warn people who surf from my site as the comments of those that have difficulty usually put blame on me for others' lack of net savvy.

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