On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:31:27AM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > This is mostly a technical mailing list and the above definitions do not > have to entirely fit with the ones used to define a standard protocol¹. > Meaning, in plain English yes, "download" is a very generic term covering > many situations. > > But you seem to forgot the context here, that is POP3, and when it comes > to POP3 the "download" verb is closely linked to "fetch and remove" which > is the default operation any MUA does when you setup a POP3 account.
Well... I disagree. When you download from a website, you don't expect the thing you are downloading to be removed from the web server. Same for usenet messages. I tend to take expectations from one context to another. The verb I associate with the common activity of download-and-remove for POP is "fetch". -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110518135340.gb17...@deckard.alcopop.org
