Jose Pina Coelho <bofh@clix.pt> Typed:
> Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> > The only feature I know about that Outlook
> > has and Pegasus lacks is the ability to talk
> > to Microsoft's mail servers when they are
> > configured to disallow the standard mail
> > protocols.
> It's not a bug. It's a feature :-)
Actually, I have been suprised to find that in the company of the pointy haired
boss set, that _is_ actually considered a feature.
Pointy hairs often have this thing that Computers should enforce policy, and MS
has all sorts of features that ensure that if your boss only wants you to send
HTML mail with the comapny logo as a 50K attachement, the LAN group can click
the needed buttons. Of course this could be defeated if a user could use a
non-brain-dead mail client. Thus, the _feature_ of a system than can only use
the special locked-down client.
For example I know of one place where to send an e-mail you have the choice of
not quoting the original message, or quoting it in it's entirity, and this is
considered a good feature. Normal e-mails quickly run up to 100K, all
containing every twist that the thread has taken, information that is often no
longer relivant.
O-faq-comment: At least we know _why_ some folks don't understand the newsgroup
quoting guidelines.
Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario
...Just beyond the fringe
My homepage is at http://www.achilles.net/~cmacd/
CANDU Nuclear Power - The Answer to the Carbon Cycle
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