Heill Óskar!
Below I copied out the group page. (see between the lines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
I also have some comments below that.

>Heill Ketill,
>
>> Netscape is a much bigger application, and is often very very slow,
>> (bottleneck effect)
>> email programs are much smaller applications in terms of
>> megabytes, and also download files much faster, because all the
>mail is
>> coming from a server near you.
>
>It's obvious that we have very different customs and circumstances in
>net usage :) I have a relatively fast connection (56k), while you
>seem to have a slower one; I use Internet Explorer at home, but I
>don't know how Netscape compares to that in speed. Also, Iceland has
>very low phone bills, so I don't mind staying connected for up to 3
>hours a day.

I have a very fast connection at work. But sometimes it is still
slow. It isn't per sé the speed of the connection that is important,
because that only gives the maximum speed. The actual speed may
vary from time to time, depending on the amount of traffic on the net,
whether some servers are down, etc.

When I download with Netscape, I can see the download speed at the lower
edge of the window. This morning as I logged into yahoogroups, it was
840 Kb/s.
In general, the more graphics a page has, the slower it is.
But I have an old computer (25 MHz). And 128 Mb RAM.

>My point was, however, that accessing the stuff in our homepage, and
>thence copying it (not downloading, no need, just copy-pasting or
>something, or just reading it straight from the browser), shouldn't
>be much slower or costlier than using the e-group page.
>
>But I think I'm just not understanding your conditions; how fast is
>your connection?

>> and "hi" means "háskolinn íslands"? If it does, I shan't forget it
>again ;)
>
>Well yes, but your version would be considered overuse of article,
>and thus bad style; "Háskóli Íslands" is the title.

More like the English style then: Cambridge University.
We have "Universitetet i Oslo /Bergen /Tromsø, etc"
^^
"-et" after a neuter noun is the definite article.
(universitet = neuter noun)
Sometimes we also use *double* determination.
Example: "Det store universitetet i Oslo" (the big university in Oslo)
Here "Det" = definite article that is a separate word attached to the *front*
of the noun. And "-et" is *another* form of definite article that is attached
to the *back* of the noun. In Icelandic that would be:

"Hinn mikli háskólinn í Reykjavík."

Do you ever use anything like that?
Another example:

"Den gamle mannen fra havet"
"Hinn gamli maðrinn frá hafsins" (the old man from the sea)

>
>> PS Ideally speaking, all you should have to remember is your
>> yahoo login. The rest should all be on the page.
>
>That's true. It was always like that, because the link was in the
>Link section; now that section is called "Bookmarks", so it still
>works :)

I didn't find "Bookmarks". "Link section" I didn't find either.
To show you what I mean, I copied the group page (see below):

>
>Óskar
>

THis below here can probably be called a "sig".
"Banner" is another word that may apply.
It does contain an URL. But it is a general one for Yahoo itself.

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Was it there all the time? Or did you just put it in?
In that case I must have simply overlooked it!
The point I was trying to make, is that if a random browser
finds this group, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to end up at
Haukur's web page in terms of having to search a lot.
As it is, I must have missed it because it was way at the bottom,
together with a lot of other information. It is like missing
a neon advertisment in Las Vegas I guess!

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