On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:06:39 -0400, Philo wrote:
>At 08:55 06/22/96 -0500, Murph Sewall scribed:
>>Why add redundant info, the Sender & To headers (and usually the Reply-to)
>>headers already identify the list name.
>
>As has been pointed out, many people using email in a corporate/workplace
>environment have their email selected *for* them. I'll use my favorite
>example: cc:Mail. cc:Mail, as stated by Lotus, is designed as a "corporate"
>email package, with internet functionality as an afterthought.
 
I have little sympathy for organizations that insist on using braindead
software.  If Internet mail is an "afterthought" then adopters pay the
consequences.  I have yet to discover anything cc:Mail or MS Mail do that
Eudora Pro doesn't do more intuitively and for less.  Are those big name
(IBM and Microsoft) mail packages bundled for free with other stuff, or do
corporate managers think that bigger vendors mean better software?
 
I think it would be more interesing to simply ask users to request that
their IS managers install mail software that is Internet
functional--there's plenty enough available.
 
If those big name mailers strip most of the headers, how well can they be
configured to filter regardless of what list owners do?
 
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:20:07 -0400, Philo wrote:
>>A more effective longterm solution would be for each of those cc:Mail
>>corporate users and corporations to indeed "groan and complain"  --loudly,
>>to Lotus. Why should the world bend to non-standards-compliant, or
>>crippled, or dumbed software?
>
>Just for the record:
>We have cc:Mail in our organization of 600, which has some tough budget
>problems. If the mail system "works", why spend $$$$ to replace it?
 
The point is that it DOES NOT work, at least not entirely.  IBM's PROFs
"works," but have you ever tried to use it for Internet mail (for
masochists only).
 
>Especially when you consider it's not just purchase price, but conversion,
>installation, and training issues...
 
Qualcomm and most other vendors will negotiate when 600 registered users
are an issue (Eudora Pro isn't much more expensive new than the upgrade
prices for many other applications).  There are an asortment of public
domain maiil converters, and even WinDOZE users teach themselves Eudora in
less than a half hour... what's to know?
 
LSOFT *may* choose to make life eaier for those stuck with "common
denominator" mail systems, but LSOFT is in no way obliged to accomodate
mail software that fails to comply with (computing time) ancient standards.
 
If you can't afford Eudora Pro, then use Eudora Lite until you can :-)
 
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