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.
