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[Rick Moen]

begin  Paul J Collins quotation:

> All good points, but I don't believe I have made a single statement
> advocating the use of Outlook.

You possibly have not gotten the piece's point.

> Any given ten-minute chunk of time that I spend using Outlook tends to
> give the air a slightly blue tinge.

Funny how people rationalise these things.  Suppose you inverted the
two:  Speak kindly rather than disparagingly, but put no effort or
creativity into propping up pernicious, proprietary software.  Make
sure that management understands the full cost of "standardising" on
Exchange/Outlook, rather than your propping it up, personally. 

> Given the way the company (and this is a *very* big company) has built
> up its IS infrastructure, Outlook is pretty much unavoidable.

> And being a contractor, I have zero input into IS policy anyway.

I remember one of the very nicest things about being a WAN/LAN
consultant:  When a customer asks you to help him implement something 
stupid, you can say "no".  You select your customers every bit as much
as they select you.

-- 
Cheers,                 "Heedless of grammar, they all cried 'It's him!'"
Rick Moen                       -- R.H. Barham, _Misadventure at Margate_
rick at linuxmafia.com