Re: ...and they thought Caesar had Gaul...


On 15-Apr-2007, copeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeffrey L. Copeland) wrote:

In article <slrnf1vjk6.al6.dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Daniel Silevitch <dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And, in a stunning coincidence, apparently the dog ate the White House
homework, to the tune of 5 *million* missing emails:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27607

I was just now reading[1] that today the White House press secretary
blamed Microsoft (specifically, a transition from Notes to Outlook).
That's probably the most believable excuse they've given so far.

-dms

[1] http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003010.php

Nice try on their part, but the substitution of Outlook for Notes,
that is, the replacement of the e-mail reading client, should have
exactly no effect on archived mail stored on the server.

But for the average user, Notes or Outlook IS the e-mail system. They don't
know Domino or Exchange.


As an aside, because of who I work for, I'm often in the situtation
of having my e-mail hosted on test versions of the Microsoft Exchange
mail server. While I'm sometimes in situtations where the mail
server crashes, leaving me without the ability to send or receive
e-mail, in 7+ years of doing this I've never missed any incoming mail,
and certainly haven't lost any archived mail. And that's on a system

Perhaps you've seen some of mine? I suspect in the last 11 years I've lost a
few dozen messages.* Not counting Microsoft Mail. But with the latest
Exchange the possibility of that is greatly reduced.

*The interesting ones are when we had problems, my mail starts coming in and
it's nothing but the headers. The message has disappeared.

that's running beta versions of the software. This leads me to
suspect that if mail was lost by the White House, it was deliberate.

I've been involved in too many software changeovers where we've been
promised a seamless transition that turns into a month(s) long ordeal to not
to grant them the possibility.
.

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