I gotta agree with Charlie here. I've got a LARGE list and I take a lot of time with my users to explain what they can and can't do (i.e. if you DON'T put a subject line, the message WILL bounce to me!)
I absolutely DETEST Outlook or , worse yet, Outlook Express because they don't function to the level of many other clients. Heck Pegasus is FREE and works better!
I was told once by a Ford salesman (regarding the Saturn car) "Saturn isn't a car! It's a marketing strategy". I've found that to be true in my world as well "Microsoft isn't SOFTWARE, it's a Marketing strategy!"
I also agree that if you're going to want you grandmother, (or anyone else that is computer illiterate) to be on a list, use egroups or something that is "user friendly"...to MS. SmartList is Unix based and does some really great things. Because of Charlie's PATIENCE I have learned a LOT about it and UNIX. Now am putting in a separate server locally to host sites and run SmartList.
I just don't know why folks believe that because it's FREE, it should necessarily have an auto pilot on it. I don't find that to be true of most "free" cgi scripts and if you don't want to mess with the settings or the instruction of your users, they you really should be using something else.
Just my $.02
Liz Logan
At 01:18 PM 10/26/2000, Charlie Summers wrote:
Well, when you buy a computer, install any piece of Microsoft software (even if utterly unrelated to the Internet), or touch the C key (exaggeration),
these
programs get installed in your computer and then try to harass you into "selecting" them as the defaults...