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"Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...> wrote: | "Deliver software with all the idiot features turned off rather than on" | has become something of a religion at Microsoft in the past year. I wonder how long we'll have to wait for 1. Iain Logan's boilerplate to become obsolete: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=qslrrt4ap1f7s3faeo916frkscvc655tdd@4... (also see http://expita.com/nomime.html ) 2. Internet Mail Service to be configured not to disgorge "Out of Office" autoreplies to mailing list messages. 3. People not be [expletive deleted] into TOFU-style by the remarkable fact that sigs are placed above(!) an attribution line and quoted text. (Of course, this is very resonant of the cover-my-ass conventions of corporate memoing - always say your stuff first in a context-challenged monologue, taking care not to snip and interleave lest a misreading become obvious; then announce your place in the pecking order; and finally, attach what appears to be the electronic equivalent of "proof of receipt" - so this isn't likely to change soon.) Sigh. -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. - Erik Naggum
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