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

al plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Tue Jul 23 10:12:01 PDT 2002


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.
> 
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Too BAD for them.

Other Govt agencies havent been that stupid and have gone Linux or Unix
based like the Pentagon.
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