> Similarly, Email fetching itself has gone through one major protocol shift under her nose without changing the very nature of it, so to make claims that in th

> Similarly, Email fetching itself has gone through one major protocol shift under her nose without changing the very nature of it, so to make claims that in the particular instance of messaging she should know the protocol is arbitrarily moving the rule-bar. Probably your mom does use neither POP3 mir IMAP, but either a Webmailer or Google's proprietary HTTP-based Gmail protocol used by the Gmail app (or Yahoo mail or ...) And whatever is being used: Users don't know what HTTP is or how it works, they have some understanding of entering addresses and clicking on links. (For German speakers I suggest this video from children TV program "Die Sendung mit der Maus" from ca. 1996 which goes quite in depth https://youtu.be/8PNRrOGJqUI https://youtu.be/8PNRrOGJqUI )