On: Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believ...

[smadge]

Email is still widely used by billions of people whereas line editors never were.

[jefftk → smadge]

Email is still widely used, but POP is not. Text editors are still widely used but ed is not.

[smadge → jefftk]

Maybe, but SMTP and IMAP are still widely used. It seems reasonable for a computer science student to implement these protocols.

[TheOtherHobbes → smadge]

You'd expect a CS student to at least know what SMTP and IMAP are, even if they don't know how they work.

Just as you'd expect a CS student to know what Emacs is, even if they've never used it.

Relying on gmail horrifies me, because it's a classic political enclosure pattern.