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Re:Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe by smadge on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:16PM (#21501609)
Email is still widely used by billions of people whereas line editors never were.
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Re:Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe by jefftk on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:13PM (#21501838)
Email is still widely used, but POP is not. Text editors are still widely used but ed is not.
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Re:Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe by smadge on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:06PM (#21502061)
Maybe, but SMTP and IMAP are still widely used. It seems reasonable for a computer science student to implement these protocols.
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Re:Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe by TheOtherHobbes on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:31AM (#21503300)
You'd expect a CS student to at least know what SMTP and IMAP are, even if they don't know how they work.

Just as you'd expect a CS student to know what Emacs is, even if they've never used it.

Relying on gmail horrifies me, because it's a classic political enclosure pattern.

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