Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address book. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz. You disdain people who use low baud rates. Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up your own social security number.
Most sites offer a number of download sites to relieve some of the congestion.
Choose the one closest to you and during off peak hours to achieve better speeds. It is not your ISP who is slowing you down. That way your recipients won't have to read everyone else's address before reaching the body of the message. You can rename any .BMP image file to .ICO and use it as an icon. Windows 95 automatically resizes the image to icon size and reduces the number of colors to 16.