Outlook is bleak
Where do you want to go today? Anywhere but Outlook!
I got back last night from a two-day vacation to over 2000 emails in my
inbox. Over 1300 were spams correctly tagged as such by our server's Spam
Assassin. Of the remaining mail, several hundred were" real" messages, and
another several hundred were debris resulting from the latest round of
Outlook viruses.
The good news is that that debris is coming to me as the result of *other*
people's being infected by the virus and trying to send mail forged under
one of my (or Salon's) addresses. I get the bouncebacks because of that
forgery. But I don't worry about being infected myself because (a) of
course I never click on spam attachments -- most spam never gets opened or
even seen; and (b) I don't ever go near Microsoft e-mail software.
Outlook is a joke. No sane computer user today should use it. If your
company makes you use it, go to your CEO and explain how much time and
money his company is losing by using it. I use Eudora; there are several
other good non-Microsoft products depending on what platform you're on.
Both Mozilla and the Open Source Applications Foundation
are developing or already offer free e-mail clients as well.
Kevin Werbach writes, "Either
email is broken, Microsoft's email software is broken, or those two
statements are the same." I don't believe they're the same at all.
Microsoft email is broken, and it's time for people to wake up and move on.
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