Microsoft should stop playing God with their products

[Steve Portnoy]

Microsoft should stop playing God with their products.

Your position of not allowing users to receive mail with an attachment, is
unacceptable.

I understand that there are security issues in today's IS environment, but I
need to be able to choose what risk I am willing to accept. I cannot have
Microsoft telling me how to communicate and how to run my business.

I need to be able to transfer database files between myself and my clients.
With Outlook, I cannot receive those and other attachments, without having my
clients and myself go through unnatural acts to accomplish our tasks.

It is proper to put in security to stop these attachments, but you must
provide a mechanism where I as the user can choose to override your security,
especially when I know the source of the files.

I am now forced to move to another mail agent, in order run my business
effectively.

 

[Rob Schneider]

That's not, as far as I know, Microsoft's position. You have been
misinformed. Read in "help" how do this properly. Or procure the
services of a qualified/informed consultant to provide you proper
guidance to your business.

No big deal moving to another email software. Nobody said you had to
use Microsoft's software.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[3Dim]

Look for 'Attachment options' via google.

 

[John Ski]

Subject: Microsoft should stop playing God with their products

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Date: 11/2/2004 4:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>

Microsoft should stop playing God with their products.

Your position of not allowing users to receive mail with an attachment, is
unacceptable.

I understand that there are security issues in today's IS environment, but I
need to be able to choose what risk I am willing to accept. I cannot have
Microsoft telling me how to communicate and how to run my business.

I need to be able to transfer database files between myself and my clients.
With Outlook, I cannot receive those and other attachments, without having my

clients and myself go through unnatural acts to accomplish our tasks.

It is proper to put in security to stop these attachments, but you must
provide a mechanism where I as the user can choose to override your security,

especially when I know the source of the files.

I am now forced to move to another mail agent, in order run my business
effectively.

In Outlook Express you can allow attachments from Tools>Options>Security.

HTH,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***