BTW nice company name. Now MS can't keep saying Tasmanian Traders is a fictional company.

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>I'm getting kinda sick of this myself. Luckily I just got out of the support business (doing only programming nowadays).
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>In our case, yesterday I told my wife to simply kill ANY message that has any attachment of any kind unless the other person explicitly stated that s/he was sending an attachment. OTOH, we use eudora, so we aren't hit with virii that crawl through the windows' holes.
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>I had a very heated discussion about this with a friend (and am about to reopen that can of worms here, but what the heck..). I think it's very neat from the technical standpoint that outlook can do so many things, but from a practical perspective having added so many features to it make it have a foot in the BS zone. Kinda like "give me 10 reasons to upgrade from Word 95 to Word 2000 that do NOT mention internet or 'group collaboration'".
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>An email reader should be just that (quoting Dr. Evil); a freakin' email reader.
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>No need to automate your computer from it, no need to be able to coordinate desert storm from it. Just a tool to read the contents of email.
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>alex
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>>One user sent out a panicky email about the new virus she heard about on the news early today (sometimes these are worse than the viruses), so I called LAN Support to ask about AV coverage. They said the latest McAfee would cover it fine. They issued no warning, though they were fully aware of the virus this time.
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>>About 10,000 virus emails later (including many from a high-level LAN manager - or maybe former LAN manager :), they finally admitted the AV was not working and sent out notice to please delete the virus emails. Way too late, many people have opened the attachments. They do not appear very sinister if you have the standard LAN setup of SHS file extensions turned off.
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>>Our mail servers are now down, and many are angry about the lack of warning - great job, LAN! And some Brownie Points to all the users who opened the attachments.