Much needed Outlook beatings, was k3b large number of files from directory

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 15 December 2007, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>On Saturday 15 December 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> but you cannot ever
>> convince the people using Outlook that its a nasty POS even if it is, and
>> they search mightily for something just like it when running linux cuz
>> they've been drinking the koolaid for so long.
>
>LOL!
>
>I had this conversation with Dad just recently.  "You mean to tell me the de
>facto world standard email client used by millions upon millions of people
>all over the planet is broken?"
>
>"Yes.  It's totally broken."
>
>"But millions upon millions of people use it, and it defines the world
>standard."
>
>"No, the world standard had existed for years before Microsoft introduced
> that broken piece of crap."

Yup, that's about it.  Nowadays we hide the headers most of the time, but when 
I got started, with a coco, running os9 level 1 version 2, calling a 300 baud 
delphi connection by long distance at a large fraction of a dollar a minute, 
that std was already carved in pretty solid stone.  You can guess the year I 
think.

That's just in case anybody here thinks this old fart is a newbie.  I have 
great-grandchildren older than some here. :)

Yeah, Outlook is hopelessly broken, users should either get used to it being 
treated as a 2nd class citizen by those who were here 10+ years before M$ 
discovered this thing called the internet & tried their damnedest to rig a 
coin operated turnstyle in the middle of it, or get a real email agent,  one 
that abides by the standards and doesn't flood the world with emails 10x 
their real size cuz it thinks html (spit) is the one true and only way.

Did I mention I don't like Outlook & friends...

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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