I wasn't wrong...
Oct. 15th, 2003 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feren... about my e-mail.
I had 140 unread messages sitting in Outlook when I sat down at my desk this morning. Of those 140 messages, 120 were spam, 10 were carbon copies on work-related issues from my supervisor or coworkers, 7 were out-of-office notices from the secretary and three were related to helpdesk tickets.
And we're being moved to a new healthcare plan. Judging from what I've read about the new provider the company is moving us to things do not look encouraging.
I had 140 unread messages sitting in Outlook when I sat down at my desk this morning. Of those 140 messages, 120 were spam, 10 were carbon copies on work-related issues from my supervisor or coworkers, 7 were out-of-office notices from the secretary and three were related to helpdesk tickets.
And we're being moved to a new healthcare plan. Judging from what I've read about the new provider the company is moving us to things do not look encouraging.
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 10:04 am (UTC)You may, but it won't help unless it runs on Exchange.
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:06 am (UTC)Um.
Er.
Hotwire Exchange to deliver your mail to a Linux machine and run bogofilter or SpAmAssassin on that?
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:12 am (UTC)[Hotwire Exchange to deliver your mail to a Linux machine and run bogofilter or SpAmAssassin on that?]
I'm not sure you should try to hotwire evil.
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 10:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 01:00 pm (UTC)Outlook is painful if you have over ten letters in your inbox.
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Date: 2003-10-15 01:16 pm (UTC)It was back during Exchange 1.0, but the suggested max was around 500 users. I don't think 500 users can be handled on a single post office efficiently, even today, thanks to the crufty nature of Exchange and its protocols. They're still handling IMAP and POP3 via IIS.
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Date: 2003-10-15 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 12:59 pm (UTC)Getting the two of them together would be an extraordinarily bad idea.
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Date: 2003-10-15 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 01:12 pm (UTC)Exchange is evil, especially as set up here. The Content-Type: of inside mail defaults to text/html inside, so it's a right bitch reading it with mutt.
I was going to suggest fetching mail using POP3 or IMAP (if they turned that on), but since you have to leave messages on the server so the stupid Calendar doesn't break, it's pointless. It used to be that I'd never read mail using Outlook and kept it open just for the calendar, but now that I've lost alternative email access, I can't do that anymore.
Email has never looked uglier, I'll say that.
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 01:29 pm (UTC)Get me my gin!
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Date: 2003-10-15 01:22 pm (UTC)They separated out prescription drugs from the medical coverage so they could keep the numbers "lower" for the latter. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find out that I'm now going to pay $800 over my benefit dollars JUST for medical. And then, if I have to use medical, I have to pay $1500 before they start covering anything. And then there's higher copay, and the shitty dental (NO, I'm not firing my dentist just because he's not in the network!) ...
Some benefits...
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Date: 2003-10-15 01:27 pm (UTC)That's "some" to rhyme with "no."
Wishing...
Date: 2003-10-15 11:06 pm (UTC)