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. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]

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