http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33809-2002Jul19.html
After more than four years of planning, the U.S. Senate is finally replacing its 12-year-old e-mail system, an antiquated communications tool that staffers say has given new meaning to the term "snail mail." "cc:Mail," a program introduced by Lotus in 1985. Last year, however, the Senate was finally forced to switch to a new e-mail system after Lotus stopped selling and supporting the program. "With the old system, it could take anywhere from 15 minutes to sometimes days for an e-mail to get to its recipient," said Matt Payne-Funk, a systems administrator for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), whose Washington office is among the first to migrate to the Microsoft Outlook-based e-mail system that will replace the old system.
