OT: email bloat

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:17:36PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I'm at a loss to think of a worse designed piece of software than
> Outlook--except perhaps Outlook Express.  :)  That has its own little
> quirks, like getting MIME types incorrect, even compared to Outlook (you'd
> think they'd just use the same codebase and disable a few things--not so).
> 
> It leaves me wondering alright...wondering who they got to write this gem
> of a program.  

They bought them.

Both of them.  

>From different companies.  I gather that OE may well have been at least
*2 different* purchased programs over it's lifetime.

Cheers,
-- jra
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     A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
     Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? 
     
     A: Top-posting.
     Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?