[fryke]

Okay. So there _is_ a "great technical divide". As long as it doesn't stop "most users" (those who don't care about the rubber in tyres and those who have no idea what address translation is etc.) from _using_ the web/e-mail/chat etc., it's just not really a problem. I don't want to go into car analogies (look at my previous message), so I'm staying with the actual "problem". I think network technologies will _have_ to evolve into something that "just works". The same thing is true for sooooooo many things. Vector graphics. For years, printers have told their users not to use too many gradients. Users didn't _know_ about how they tortured the printers (both the machines and the people at them, I mean) with some of their stuff. They shouldn't _have_ to. Now finally Adobe is catching up with all those gradient-creators by giving PostScript some abilities about them. Computer networks are similar. Some stuff simply can't be done with POP3. That's where newer protocols come in. The user, at the end, just isn't the one who should *have* to be the expert. That's where you come in. And maybe me. I personally filter my knowledge, too. And so do you. You're not an expert in *everything*. There are things where you're more on the developer side knowledge-wise, some things you're probably a genius in, and maaaaaaaany things you're *no* expert in. Does my sister, who teaches 10-year olds, *really* have to know that she now uses an IMAP mail server instead of the POP-server she's been using before I changed the setup of her machine and E-Mail account? Does she even have to know how exactly the server is configured which forwards the mail going to whatever@nicedomain.chrup to her IMAP-account? No. She shouldn't have to. And in ten years, many would probably wonder what POP and IMAP ever was, because both have been surpassed by Gmail3. :P