Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, aeleblanc@olgc.on.ca wrote:
> Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks.
>
> 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell.
> 2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when
> you reply, other wise there is no quoted text
> 3) ...And when you do that, It puts a big ugly graphical header in the
> middle of the email, which you can't delete.
> 4) and the quoted text does not get any character placed in from to show
> that it has been quoted (ie. > )
> 5) its configuration menu consists of about 10 options.
> 6) using the middle mouse button will sometimes (haven't fiured out
> exactly why) cause another window to pop up (not a windows window, but a
> lotus notes window) that has the old version 4 screen layout in it)
> 7) very non-standard (as far as I know it doesn't support POP3 or IMAP
> Mail, just Lotus Notes Mail... I'm probably wrong here but I haven't seen
> any options for it)
> 8) the window switching behaviour is very erratic, sometimes you click in
> the taskbar thing for a window and nothing happens, or it opens a
> different window (by windows and taskbar i'm referring to ones built into
> Lotus, (it's an MDI) not the Windows ones)
> 9) Not sure of the technicalities behind this one but our Identity Files
> (store your settings, etc) have to be mapped to drive M, if not, it will
> crash, and no other users can use it until someone from IT Comes and Fixes
> it.
> 10) Its Really awkward working with email attachments. can't get into
> more detail, you just have to try it.
> 11) Its really ugly.
> 12) just as I was trying to hit "send" after writing reason # 11, Lotus
> told me that "The message has been deleted" i have no Idea Why.
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