On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:54:41 +0000,  Seymour J Metz wrote:

>Did you ask him what a mail server was? That nomenclature goes back to the 
>ARPA network. 
>
I don't recall that I did.  I would have expected him to answer,
"The SMTP virtual machine, of course."

>>Am I the only one to remember when "server" referred to a virtual machine, 
>>not necessarily running in the same location as the client?

>    ..., a VM partisan, ...

-- gil

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