Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-04 Thread Kent West
Bart Szyszka wrote: IMO, [Outlook 2000 is] significantly better (as is the Office 2k suite entirely, IMO) in performance and features. Except that Office 2000's setup installs IE and Outlook [Express] even if you don't want them. You can do a minimal install of them, and you can even

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-04 Thread Brian May
Keith == Keith G Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keith I just checked out Outlook98, by sending and replying to Keith messages to myself, and apparently it does not provide Keith References headers. It does do threading of a sort, Keith apparently by the subject line (with

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Brian, How do you configure MS-Outlook to add the References header, so that threads will work properly? Or is this a feature of a newer version of outlook that wasn't in earlier versions? While I don't use outlook myself, I find it annoying to receive messages from people who do use it,

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul McHale wrote: Brian, How do you configure MS-Outlook to add the References header, so that threads will work properly? Or is this a feature of a newer version of outlook that wasn't in earlier versions? While I don't use outlook myself, I find it annoying to receive messages

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Keith, It is certainly inexcusable for Outlook to ignore References, as well as not give any option for providing them. MS is the only company I know of that wants their stuff to not interoperate with others'. But NS should at least give you a Terminate Thread option on reply that would

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 03, 1999, 11:17:50 AM, Paul wrote: Ultimately, they are getting off their butts again and the next gen looks really good. My point: Had they not had such a death grip on the market, they would have lost serious market share when the other cards caught up/out paced them. My

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Bart Szyszka
I am not sure there is a way to configure it in Outlook98, which is the specific version I have. The RE: has always worked for me. I do know there were significant changes from Outlook97 to Outlook98. You suggestion may be one of them. Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Debian or

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Bart, Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Debian or something? Through WINE? If you did I'd like to hear about that. For a second there I thought I was reading mail from Microsoft's newsgroups. I checked and don't believe Outlook will run under linux in any fashion. The original focus

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 03, 1999, 12:37:09 PM, Bart wrote: Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Debian or something? Through WINE? VMWare. ;) The only reason I don't use it is because I don't have any use for the reminder/calendar/etc. stuff in Windows because of ICQ99b. Gack. I wish