On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Charlie Summers wrote:
At 12:58 AM -0400 7/31/02, Anne Judge is rumored to have typed:
One more time; there is no "unix delinking command." (Ok, purists, maybe rm.) There is a shell script tool ("convenience-utility") included with SmartList named "delink," and its usage is clearly noted in the Manual file included with the distribution.
The salient point here being that what the FTP GUI does when you tell it to delete a file is not the same as what the SmartList "delink" script does, and it requires at the least several steps to accomplish with an FTP GUI what the "delink" script does in one execution.
Which means (a) you have several times as many chances to make a mistake while using the FTP GUI, and (b) when you use the term "delink" in discussions on this mailing list, readers will think you mean that you used the script and assume that you therefore did not make any of those mistakes, and therefore may give you wrong advice/instructions.
Written speech on a technical mailing list needs to be as concise and accurate as possible to avoid confusion. The user interface you choose (or are forced) to use is unrelated to the necessity to understand and employ the correct terminology.