Elizabeth Long wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau ####################
Too BAD for them. Other Govt agencies havent been that stupid and have gone Linux or Unix based like the Pentagon. -- Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043
