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"Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com> wrote:
| "Deliver software with all the idiot features turned off rather than on"
| has become something of a religion at Microsoft in the past year.
I wonder how long we'll have to wait for
1. Iain Logan's boilerplate to become obsolete:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=qslrrt4ap1f7s3faeo916frkscvc655tdd@4ax.com
(also see http://expita.com/nomime.html )
2. Internet Mail Service to be configured not to disgorge "Out of Office"
autoreplies to mailing list messages.
3. People not be sucked into TOFU-style by the remarkable fact that sigs
are placed above(!) an attribution line and quoted text. (Of course, this
is very resonant of the cover-my-ass conventions of corporate memoing -
always say your stuff first in a context-challenged monologue, taking care
not to snip and interleave lest a misreading become obvious; then announce
your place in the pecking order; and finally, attach what appears to be
the electronic equivalent of "proof of receipt" - so this isn't likely to
change soon.)
Sigh.
--
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question.
NO is the answer. - Erik Naggum
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