| Two commonly used meanings:
Point of Presence and Post Office Protocol.
A Point of Presence usually means a city or location where a network
can be connected to, often with dial up phone lines. So if an
Internet company says they will soon have a POP in Belgrade, it
means that they will soon have a local phone number in Belgrade
and/or a place where leased lines can connect to their network.
A second meaning, Post Office Protocol refers to a way that e-mail
client software such as Eudora gets mail from a mail server. When
you obtain an account from an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
you almost always get a POP account with it, and it is this POP
account that you tell your e-mail software to use to get your
mail. Another protocol called IMAP is replacing POP for email.
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