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<p><span style="font-family:Arial Black;color:#ede659">Amen, Gene.</span></p>
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<p>(Just kidding. I'll never do *this* again.)</p>
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<p>On Saturday 15 December 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:</p>
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<p>> On Saturday 15 December 2007, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:</p>
<p>> >On Saturday 15 December 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:</p>
<p>> >> but you cannot ever</p>
<p>> >> convince the people using Outlook that its a nasty POS even if it is,</p>
<p>> >> and they search mightily for something just like it when running linux</p>
<p>> >> cuz they've been drinking the koolaid for so long.</p>
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<p>> >LOL!</p>
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<p>> >I had this conversation with Dad just recently. "You mean to tell me the</p>
<p>> > de facto world standard email client used by millions upon millions of</p>
<p>> > people all over the planet is broken?"</p>
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<p>> >"Yes. It's totally broken."</p>
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<p>> >"But millions upon millions of people use it, and it defines the world</p>
<p>> >standard."</p>
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<p>> >"No, the world standard had existed for years before Microsoft introduced</p>
<p>> > that broken piece of crap."</p>
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<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> Yup, that's about it. Nowadays we hide the headers most of the time, but</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> when I got started, with a coco, running os9 level 1 version 2, calling a</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> 300 baud delphi connection by long distance at a large fraction of a dollar</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> a minute, that std was already carved in pretty solid stone. You can guess</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> the year I think.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> That's just in case anybody here thinks this old fart is a newbie. I have</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> great-grandchildren older than some here. :)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> Yeah, Outlook is hopelessly broken, users should either get used to it</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> being treated as a 2nd class citizen by those who were here 10+ years</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> before M$ discovered this thing called the internet & tried their damnedest</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> to rig a coin operated turnstyle in the middle of it, or get a real email</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> agent, one that abides by the standards and doesn't flood the world with</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> emails 10x their real size cuz it thinks html (spit) is the one true and</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> only way.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> Did I mention I don't like Outlook & friends...</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> --</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> Cheers, Gene</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> <Knghtbrd> learn to love Window Maker.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0b0be1">> <Knghtbrd> a little NeXTStep is good for the soul.</span></p>
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<p>-- </p>
<p>D. Michael McIntyre </p>
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