How can I use inline images without alienating my users?

If you pay any attention to comments from users of your web pages, you will quickly learn that 500K GIFs are only pretty to the four or five users who have a personal T1 line. I'm exaggerating, but not all that much. It's astonishing how many web site producers have never tested their site through one of the 14.4kbps modems (that's only 1600 bytes per second on a good day, remember) that the actual customer is using.
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