There was recently a forum message giving the address of a Microsoft article on connecting web parts which I checked out before marking that reply as an Answer.

While I was checking it (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA100241051033.aspx) out, I noticed a link to an article on List View web part.

Now I've always assumed that this must be something that comes with MOSS only as I mainly use WSS 3.0 and I've never seen a link there to Create a "List View Web Part".

Because of this, if there's been a message in a newsgroup/forum that mentions List View Web Part, I've always moved quickly on.

So I checked that article (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA100240521033.aspx) and discovered the following starting sentence.

"There is no Web Part called List View."

which of course makes you wonder why they have written a long article on something that doesn't exist (and why people keep saying they have one).

It turns out that this List View web part that doesn't exist is just the official name for what I usually think of as the "web part version of a List".

(Something that often confuses people so that I make sure in my book (by spending a lot of time on it, with examples) that people are aware that this is (unless filtered) the same content as the list itself. So if you create two such web parts on a page from the same list you get the same thing twice (unless the web parts are differently filtered).)

In other words the only problem is that I never knew the official term for this Web Part that doesn't exist (but does).

Now I do know the official term, maybe just maybe I'll start reading those newsgroup/forums postings that include that term.