Forii? or is that 'Flora & Fauna'... those two nice endlessly young ladies who dance around semi-clad in the environment? :-)

Various other posters

1) Yes, putting it all in Max's lap will chew up the already available BW to the Cat - I currently have enough problems holding onto a Mudcat session sometimes because the current Mudcat BW means that I can't get the internal 'heartbeat' stuff to keep a Mudcat session alive - it keeps on dooring me, then I often find that although it has just told me I am no longer connected, it won't let me in because my User Name is still in use!

I detest 'Real Audio' and other streaming formats - on dialup I can't get them to flow in properly from places with bandwidth glitches like Mudcat displays - it starts and stops all the time, and takes 10 times the length of time to play the file while consuming the resource I pay for (time) - I also can't 'background download' Streaming Files, which can be done at MY convenience while doing other things.

George Seto

Paras 1 & 2) Agree. Don't seem to remember actually saying to put the music file on Mudcat anyway - did suggest that they be held on the member's own sites (or somewhere like Nick suggests).

Para 3) For me, at least, something seems to clog the path to the Cat regularly and sporadically often causing dropouts of the Chat & any downloads which then need to be restarted - wasting connect time.

Of course, no one here knows that I started playing around with electrinics in the 1960's then moving on to Main frame and 'personal computers' - not getting annoyed - just stating something... :-)