Thursday, February 13, 2003, 3:58:57 AM, Stefan wrote: ST> I hear the word "forced" from many people when it comes to their work ST> places. As far as I understand, there is no violence involved, but ST> anyway - why is it so? It's understandable if they are using MS ST> Exchange throughout (The Bat! does not handle MS Exchange proprietary ST> protocol), but if they are not, what is the reason? Well, may be it ST> sounds like a silly question with an obvious answer, it is important ST> for us (I mean - RITLABS) to hear what are the "other" reasons...
We have to use Outlook <spit> in college which I really detest. The reasoning behind us all having to use the same program includes: 1. the IT people only have one mail program to support so should make it standard <i.e. read easy!> for them, 2. the college only has to licence one mail program, 3. students/staff are not allowed to install any program onto the network as a protection against viruses/trojans being installed by *mischievous* people, (IT dept can install other programs if needed for something in particular *but* that would have to specialist software that isn't already available on the network - just not liking their choice of mail client or word processing software etc. wouldn't be enough to justify an install request.) -- Cheers, Anne The Bat Email - Unofficial Support Forum: http://the-bat-forums.donzeigler.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
