Ok, thanks, paligap, that bit about reading them like a website, that helps me understand about reading emails via a browser.
________________________________ From: PaliGap <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 2:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL looks different this morning - -- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > yes yes YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! and IMHO not a very smart feature at > all! I used to have 25 messages on a screen/page! > > I don't really know what is meant by *client* in this context. Is yahoo a > client? Google? Yahoo! Mail is an email client. Think of an email "client" as a window. You have a mail box (It could be your Yahoo! email account, or a Gmail account, or a regular mail server account). The mail box resides on some server somewhere (or on a group of servers if there is mirrored backup). To read your email you need an email client that presents the emails that are on the server in an orderly and human-friendly way to you. Many different "clients" can be used to present the same email account data. E.g. desktop software such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Mac mail, or browser applications such as Gmail, Yahoo! mail, FastMail and so on. Yahoo! groups has an email feed. That means you can read it in any email client. But then you can also just read it in your browser as a regular (regular-ish) web site. Which is what I do.
