Re: Messed up Email
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> 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).
We are at cross-purposes (I think). My gmail account receives mail,
generally from bugs.debian.org. I download it with POP3 and read it
in mutt. That is all I use it for. It lools email compliant to me.
I am not interested in Google-bashing.
> 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.
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> 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.
Young people! I've tried to explain to them that the universe is not
expanding. With little avail.
As for the Higgs boson - forget about it!
--
Brian.
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