This is semantic silliness. The outfits that make Netscape, Mozilla et
al are ultra-quick to tell you that they are marketing not just a
browser, but "Communications Suites" or equivalent verbiage.
Communications Suites turn out to mean a browser bundled with mail
reader, news reader, and some other stuff. It is only our half-smart
savvy-blinkers that conflates the two and calls the whole suite a
"browser."
--On Monday, July 08, 2002 11:27 PM -0400 Nick Simicich
<njs@scifi.squawk.com> wrote:
> At 12:06 PM 2002-07-08 -0800, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
>> > What does this have to do with anything? I can't imagine using a
>> browser
>> > for mail, sorry.
>>
>> Who said anything about a browser? Netscape has a mail and news
>> client as well, which is not the browser.
>
> But I am a dumb user. I installed a browser --- where did that mail
> and news client come from? What is the difference? I think it is
> all the web, you know? I mean, I want it to all be the web, why
> should I have to learn the difference? And I'm right because I'm the
> user.
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