The name came about with the introduction of the Communicator series, IIRC. That was when they started including Collabra (a newsreader that had been a separate product). They used the Messenger name to differentiate Mail from the Collabra Newsreader. Of course, all that code got chucked, so the name is really anachronistic.
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 11:24, Net Llama! wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:30:02 -0400 (EDT) > > Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, m.w.chang wrote: > > > > note the word "Messenger", not the browser.. :) I am using IE6 most of > > > > the time. > > > > > > what the fsck is messenger?? > > > > > > > The Mozilla/Netscape mail/news client. > > I've been using Netscape/Mozilla since 1994, and this is the first time > i've heard anyone refer to it like that. *shrug* > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
