On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:12 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:17:33 -0400 > > Pete Holsberg wrote: > > Malcolm Kay typed the following on 6/18/2006 9:27 AM: > > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:33 am, graeme murray wrote: > > >> Is there a MS Outlook lookalike? > > > > > > But it is difficult to find something else with all the > > > nasty habits of MS Outlook. Of course this is my personal > > > view of Outlook but there seem to be a lot of people with > > > similar opinions; and there are some people out there that > > > actually like it. > > > > I like Outhouse because it syncs with my PDA's contacts, > > notes, to-do lists, etc. > > I really dislike Outlook because it is responsible for > spreading 80% of windows viruses, which slow our internet > servers and create an industry which should not exist > (commercial virus checkers and mail server virus checkers). > It could be argued that this is because 80% of people use Outlook. And all mail clients can pass viruses when used without discrimination on the part of the user.
However I agree that Outlook is bad wrt virus spreading. But there are other issues that a lot of other mail clients fall down on as well as Outlook -- such as discouraging anything but top-posting. I don't use it but I understood Thunderbird was not good in this respect. Malcolm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
