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Re: Messed up Email



On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> 
> > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it
> > absolutely clear;
> > 
> > gmail != email
> 
> Nonsense.
>  
> > or, in words;
> > 
> > gmail IS NOT email
> 
> More nonsense.

Not nonsense at all.

gmail is a mail reader (like as Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or Outlook (the
program) + a mail server + domain name (gmail.com).

email is set standards which gmail implements.

email is NOT gmail and let's not forget this.

I'm sure most everyone on this list is tech savy enough to understand
that.  Brian, it would astonish me if you don't, but your reply is
difficult to understand your intent whether it's toungue in cheek or
not.

It's quite shocking to me to have conversations with young people,
even into their early 20s who do not understand this distinction.  And
there are many people who do not understand the distinction between a
standards based system such as mail or the web and a proprietary
system such as facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc etc.  And
many of them simply don't care, for them, they just use it because
their friends do.

Michael Grant

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