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| From | Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Messed up Email |
| Date | 2021-06-23 21:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <CtgJr-1JQ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <CsBwC-2fw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CsLYZ-6z-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <CsTtv-4xb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <Ct9HX-5VD-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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. i> > 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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Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 12:20 +0200
Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 17:20 +0200
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