Word: protocolic
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IMAP stands for Internet Mail Access Protocol. By using it, people can take advantage of useful features for dealing with e-mail that are not available when using the prevalent Unix e-mail client, Pine, or a POP mail client like Eudora...
...understand how IMAP works, it is useful to compare it to the other major e-mail access protocol known as POP, Post Office Protocol...
When Boris Yeltsin was too sick to go on a state visit to Austria last week, Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov quickly stepped in--in every sense of the word. Yeltsin's advancemen sketched out Primakov's arrival and departure; Yeltsin's chief of protocol arranged the state visits; and Yeltsin's personal interpreter did the German-to-Russian translating. The only things missing, a Moscow newspaper wagged, were Mrs. Yeltsin and a battery of doctors. Not to mention the gaffes, stumbles and truncated schedules. The Russian establishment reacted with relief. "It's so good to see the country represented...
...nothing to get overly alarmed about. The barons of fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...
...many of these out-growths of the Internet. Others include electronic mail and file transfers. The Web exists on the Internet using a language called hypertext transport protocol (http...