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- Path: news.danadata.dk!usenet
- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 18 Feb 96 01:57:21 +0100
- Organization: DanaData Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1316.6622T117T1062@aix1.danadata.dk>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <4fkv8l$6dg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <580.6616T769T1391@mailbox.swipnet.se> <19960216.7A76940.A440@mother.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: pppaarh183.danadata.dk
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- On 16-Feb-96 12:01:47, Dan J. Fraser wrote:
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- > Thor's terminology is NOT standard or correct.
-
- Not standard? Maybe so, if there is a standard at all. But incorrect? Who
- are you to judge? Would you like to learn the danish terms, or they also
- improper?
-
- > The internet is NOT a BBS.
-
- THOR's user interface has no references to BBS's that I can find.
-
- > Newsgroups are NOT 'message bases.'
-
- Aren't they? I think it about covers it.
-
- > Articles are NOT 'messages.'
-
- Neither are e-mails then, so what would you call the two in one term?
-
- > You don't 'download' your 'message packet.'
-
- No, you're right. At least THOR doesn't. It can download files in
- certain system types, though.
-
- > These are just throwbacks from Thor's legacy. It seems to be more of a
- > hacked-up QWK reader than an actual piece of news/mail software.
-
- Because of a few unfamiliar terms? Now, that sure is a solid basis for
- your judgement.
-
- I'm getting kind of tired of all you better-knowing people. Isn't the
- truth that it annoys you that all your hard-earned knowledge about UUCP,
- SMTP, NNTP, POP etc. seems devaluated when everybody can get their
- mail and news without having a clue about them?
-
- --
- Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk
- Tranbjerg, Denmark FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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