From: i18n@...
Message: 4775
Date: 2005-04-19
> i18n@... wrote:Well in the sense that vocabulary questions ("What is an email client")
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Why isn't it my email program or my email application?
> >
> > Do you mean is your email program or email application the same as your
> > email client? If so, the answer is they are synonyms for the same
> > thing.The email serve is the place where your inbound email resides
> > until (and sometimes after) you download it to your client. The serve is
> > also responsible for sending mail to other servers, receiving mail from
> > other servers, and for handling requests from clients to download or
> > otherwise view mail.
> >
> > >
> > > What's the metaphor by which an email program becomes a "client"?
> >
> > The same metaphor by which your browser is a client to web servers you
> > care to access. And if you use an FTP program, it is a client in the
> > same way to an ftp server. A large part of the internet (some might
> > argue the whole thing) is based on a client-server architecture. Perhaps
> > in the 80s you heard of "client-server architecture" being bandied about
> > in computer circles? Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't matter. Type any
> > of these terms or questions into a search engine and you will find the
> > answers waiting for you, and surely someone will have written it up in
> > precisely the level of detail you require.
> >
> > Are you taking an interest in computers now? I think it would be great
> > if you did. But this list might not be the best place to get these types
> > of elementary lessons, so please don't be put off if the ongoing and
> > repeated advice is to review someplace else where the purpose of the
> > destination is to answer elementary computer and vocabulary questions.
> > That would be very good advice indeed!
>
> No, I'm no asking any questions about computers; I'm asking questions
> about language.
>Well, if that is your entire experience with computers, it is not
> As for the 80s, what I heard about computers was what Miguel Civil told
> us about when he rolled his TRS kit-computer and the Selectric it was
> hooked up to into the Assyrian Dictionary office to show us how he was
> trying to create a Sumerian database. In 1984 I got a Kaypro 4/84 --
> just weeks before Apple announced their Universities program, through
> which many Chicago people got their first Macs. But I went to DOS for my
> first upgrade.
>
> In the 70s I had one quarter of COMIT II with Vic Yngve, and wrote some
> programs that actually became part of linguistic research -- I. J.
> Gelb's *Compute-Aided Analysis of Amorite*, and Eric Hamp's
> investigation of Breton dialects.
>
> In the early 90s, when if WWS was going to get published, I'd have to do
> it myself, I switched to Mac, because DOS/Windows in those days could
> not deal with fonts or graphics.