On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:06:53PM -0000, Alex Brett wrote:
From the Email part of the spec at http://www.lft.ngfl.gov.uk/index.php?i=307
'Facility for offline email reading and composition. Freeware or shareware is not acceptable' That would seem to eliminate Outlook Express (which in my view ia a good thing given the numerous viruses that have been caused by the bad coding in Outlook Express!), however it seems to
When was the last time Microsoft coded anything well?
imply the use of Outlook which is even worse!
IIRC Outlook actually uses Outlook Express for handling email. So it *should* be barred too. Insisting on an offline system has all sorts of issues which do not appear to be thought through. But the people behind the LFT dosn't appear, IMHO, to have thought through the consequences of a lot of their decisions. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763