From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:08:48 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>If I start up Outlook 2000, and while it's checking my 10 email accounts I end
the outlook program by closing it, a process called "outlook" in
taskmanager is still active and will remain active until killed.
>
>If it's not a zombie process, what do you call it?

  A lame app that takes the user request to exit as a mere suggestion: "I'm
doing something too important to interrupt for now.   I know better than
you when to stop my current transaction."

  OE does something similar at certain stages in the mail transaction -
although nothing in the standard SMTP or POP RFC's require an
uninterruptible transaction.

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