At 04:30 PM Tuesday 5/20/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
>Safari? I thought that was something called a browser, like Netscape, >or Explorer, or Thunderbird, or Mozilla, Linux...? What is OS X? For what it's worth: OS X, Windows (in all its different versions like 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista . . . ), and Linux are all what are called "operating systems." An "operating system," frequently abbreviated "OS," is the main program which controls whatever happens on the computer. Everything else which runs on the computer runs under the operating system, iow, the OS must be up and running properly before you can run any other programs on the computer. (Some of the geeks here may point out that I am simplifying things here, but I'm trying to give you what you need, not teach another course in operating system design like I last taught about 20 years ago . . . ;)) Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla are all examples of "browsers." A browser is a program which runs under an operating system and allows you to connect to the Internet and read web pages. Thunderbird and Eudora (which I'm using at the moment) are examples of "mail programs." A mail program runs under an operating system and allows you to read and write and send and receive e-mail. To make things more complicated (naturally), many browsers have an e-mail feature which allows you to read and write and send and receive e-mail while in the browser. Also, there are sites like Gmail and the mail feature at Yahoo! and many others where you can load a particular web page in your browser and read and write and send and receive e-mail while logged into that web page. So you may indeed be using a browser to read and write and send and receive your Brin-list e-mail. That's why William asked you to look up in the upper-left-hand corner of your screen where the name of the active program usually appears so hopefully someone here will recognize the name of the program and know something about how to manage its settings. (Yes, all of them are different. Frequently quite frustratingly so. And like with every other program, familiarity with how it works takes practice.) I'm sure some of the others here will be weighing in with their words of wisdom (probably much wiser than the above . . . ) HTH. . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
