[SunRescue] nthelp website

[Paul Khoury]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:34:35 -0500, Cyrus M. Reed wrote:

>Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>> It's a really nice server from the client perspective (outlook is much better than this here 
>> Netscape mailer)
>
>AAAACK!  First the new sunhelp color scheme, now this.  I'll be blind by
>the end of the weekend for sure. ;)  Outlook?!?  Surely you must be
>joking.  All those dialog boxes, tabs, super secret hidden options... 
>the user interface alone is enough to get one lost for months at a
>time.  It's one of those programs that you figure out how to do
>something once, and you're lucky if you can do the same thing two days
>later.   Ick, I get such a disgusting feeling just thinking about it. 

I'll put it this way - as a program, it really really sucks.

To configure it, it's easy  - ask me how to setup something, I can probably do quite
a few things with my eyes closed.  In fact, I almost never have outlook or outlook express
actually open when doing a walkthrough at work...


 I
>have the misfortune of having to support this program at my university;
>anytime someone calls and says they have an Outlook question, my first
>instinct is to exclaim "look out!".  Supposedly when the Exchange server
>was put together, they were told never to let it crash, because it's
>next to impossible to get running again (it's some detailed process to
>restore everything, and if you miss or get one step wrong, its back to
>square one... so I've been told). 

Well, it's "NT", neanderthal technology, and Exchange.  What'd you expect?

It's like concept of the new Metrolink trains, but outfitted with a steam engine - too
much maintainence and more error prone.

 The web mail "feature" crashes
>something like twice a week.  I could go on, but suffice it to say I'm
>happy my e-mail doesn't run through that house of cards (lucky for me
>student e-mail is on the E4000, I have yet to see Pine or the POP3
>server crash :).

Heh heh heh... I didn't know you could crash your pop3 daemon, outside of
queueing too many messages that are incoming