West Lothian and email

[Roland Perry]

In article 
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F16E1C3833D090@EXSAN02.campus.ncl.ac.uk>, C R Ritson 
<c.r.ritson@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>> I had an interesting conversation with someone you would have thought 
>>might know better, a couple of years ago. They insisted that  every 
>>email  anyone sent was "offered" to every PC in the world, and  mainly 
>>rejected  as unwanted, except for the intended recipient. Not unlike 
>>some sort of  global "ethernet".
>
>An outlook express user getting mixed up between personal mail and 
>Usenet News delivered by flooding to neighbours perhaps? We had a 
>number of accidents here where students had a personal mail folder 
>(perhaps called csc202, a module code) and a virtual folder 
>corresponding to a news group for discussion of the same module 
>(ncl.cs.cs202). On a number of occasions, we think the alleged 
>misdelivery of sensitive mail to the newsgroup was simply finger 
>trouble when the student attempted to save a message.

No, not even that. They thought that setting their email address into 
their mail client was simply an instruction for it to pick out all the 
emails addressed the *them* as they flew past. Otherwise, how could they 
read their emails when roaming away from the office, if they weren't all 
being sent [pushed] everywhere?

The concept they were missing was that of a store-and-forward mail 
server associated with their domain name, and POPing mail off that from 
wherever you were.
-- 
Roland Perry