[Healeys] Off-topic: The List

[Bob Spidell]

POP3:  Messages get sucked-down from server to a local client, like 
Thunderbird.  Server erases its copy immediately or after a period of time.

IMAP:  Message gets served up by server--usually to a browser--but stays 
on server.

IMAP is the predominant method these days, (ostensibly) because you can 
access the message indefinitely from any number of clients (I wouldn't 
be surprised if the NSA prefers this, although they likely sample 
everything moving across the Net).

I use both--POP3 and T-Bird at home, IMAP and browser at work--and have 
the same issues with both.

The issues started for me after Mark had problems--IIRC he got 
hacked--and he may have upgraded a few months ago.


On 10/22/2015 6:30 PM, Greg Lemon wrote:
> In my early days of participating in the list, about 1999, it behaved 
> for me as Bob described in his original post, my response or original 
> question would appear minutes to many hours later, sometimes, actually 
> fairly often, answers would appear before questions.  That all stopped 
> for me when Mark did one of his upgrades several years ago, and now 
> for the most part everything pops up quickly and in order (for me at 
> least).  I have used roadrunner email since before I started 
> participating on the list, it uses a POP3 server (I don't really know 
> what that means other than I know Microsoft keeps making it harder and 
> harder to use POP3 email with each new software iteration) using 
> Windows Live Mail as my email client.
> Anyway it has worked and played well with the list for quite some 
> time  (unless Mark has been pulling knobs pushing buttons behind the 
> curtains like a crazed Wizard of Oz  to keep me going without my 
> knowledge) but I suppose if you aren't a Time Warner Cable subscriber 
> it isn't an option for you.
> Greg Lemon
>
>

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