Doug,

Does that mean the use of any words here is fair game to ask and expect
an answer? At what point should we be expected to look stuff up in our
preferred sources before demanding help on elementary topics?

I see plenty of unfamiliar words on this forum - most of them are
related to writing systems I am not familiar with. I consider those fair
to ask about, but it is still easier to take a quick scan at google and
get a range of opinions for it takes less time then sending and waiting
for a reply. and it usually answers the question, or at least allows me
to frame it better.

I think for computer related terms, where the answer is easily
available, and not related to writing systems, and the questioner has
clearly stated he is not interested in computers, the intent was to
waste people's time instead of getting the answer, because the answer is
so readily available. Mission accomplished - this time!

Doug - it is never less work to tell someone to google a term then it
is to define it. That Peter is just being stubborn is why I moved this
to an off-topic thread.

Seriously, given the structure of the sentence you quoted, and given
that it was directed at an educated long term user of email who likes to
parse English sentences, don't you think he could of easily thought
something like: "Hmm - 'your email client'...don't know what an email
client is, but it says 'your'... what do I have that has to do with
email and has a 'manual' or 'help site'? Oh maybe he means the program I
use to send email, since that is all I have that is
email-related....maybe I will ask that and try to show respect to the
list by demonstrating I gave it a minute's thought by showing what I did
to try to find out"?

If any of us are not capable of such simple deductions, including me,,
then maybe we should all take that into accounting evaluating other posts.

Gotta say I am surprised how many people are still reading this thread.
Personally, I think I am about done with this thread, now that off-topic
posts are clearly marked off topic, I'd prefer to go back to on-topic.

And now that Peter knows what an email client is, I guess he won't be
seeing my messages anymore. Unless we are going to start anew with
"filtering" :) For which my advice to read the manual or help site still
holds true, if a few days delayed.

Best,

Barry

Doug Ewell wrote:

> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:
>
> > What's an "email client"?
>
> Geez, folks. No matter how you feel about Peter, it would have been
> much less work just to answer the question.
>
> An e-mail client is the program you use to send, receive, manage, and
> (usually) compose e-mail messages.
>
> It is distinct from the "servers" which do the heavy work of passing
> messages along the network.
>
> As for the Peter's question being off-topic, I'm sure he wouldn't have
> asked it if another list member hadn't suggested he "read the manual or
> help site for your email client."
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
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