"List Server" to Layman and Computer Expert

[Raquel]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:54:34 -0700
"Piper" <pay_the_piper at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Preston Hagar" <prestonh at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Evolution/Express/Mac-equivalent
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Piper<pay_the_piper at shaw.ca>
> > wrote:
> >> Why wouldn't Evolution or Express be improved or upgraded? And
> >> what does the
> >> Mac OS call its emailer?
> >>
> >> So these are three email servers allowed by Shaw and other ISPs.
> >>
> >> If they are improved Shaw won't allow them? Is that political?
> >
> >
> > Evolution and Outlook Express are _not_ email servers.  They are
> > MUAs or "Mail Clients".  This diagram may help:
> >
> > http://support.kavi.com/khelp/kmlm/user_help/html/how_email_works.html
> 
> Thanks for the diagram.
> 
> What we seem to have here is a communication/definitional problem.
> If I go to my garage with a problem, I express it in layman's
> terms. I may not use words like motor and engine the same way as
> people in auto engineering and I may describe a motor/engine sound
> like "knocking" which the engineer recognizes in different terms.
> 

Ahhhh.  But calling the steering wheel a tire will get you no where.
Ask the right questions and you'll get the right answers.

-- 
Raquel
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