[luau] Senate Getting Badly Needed E-Mail Update, but it's MS

[Elizabeth Long]

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.