[OT] outlook

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 07:43  AM, Ken Norris wrote:

> Ahh. I wonder why not, after all it's Outlook Express, probably the 
> most
> popular emailer there is. Maybe they have extensible char sets 
> somewhere.

It displays correctly on Apple's Mail.app. Oh wait, it was sent using 
Mail.app as well. :-) Mail.app even displays Kanji and other weird 
character sets. Kinda bizarre to get spam in foreign character sets.

I am highly skeptical of Outlook Express. I worked in technical support 
for an ISP from 1996-99, when MS Outlook was just being introduced. 
Because it came bundled with Internet Explorer, people felt they had to 
use it, even though it was very buggy and non-standards compliant. At 
that time there were about 5 different "versions" of Outlook all with 
different names, features and bugs. I assume it's gotten better. But we 
used to recommend Eudora or Pegasus Mail for Win32 mail clients.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com