On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Tom Poe wrote: > Well, I'll object to your "wrong" label. I can't think of one > application meant to do something other than communicate. We could > possibly discuss how far the transmission has to go to be > telecommunicated. Are you thinking about a particular application that > doesn't participate in communication, or telecommunication? If I look at an image in Irfanview, am I telecommunicating. I say no. If you define telecommunicating to be anything that anyone does with a computer, then it doesn't have much meaning to me and the meaning is certainly different than what I have heard in the past. You have been boring and way off topic so I'm done bothering with you now. Mike