In early 2004 Google introduced Gmail and set about restructuring email as we knew it. They grouped emails by relationships and simplified search and organization. Plus the spam filter is by far the best ever created. Today, four years later, a company called Xobni has a tool in beta form that can be downloaded for free (I think). This will produce a somewhat similar functionality in Outlook, the worst email client ever created in the Milky Way Galaxy. I am certainly not faulting the producers of Xobni nor does this have anything to do with the Microsoft email client Outlook Express. I actually like Outlook Express and encourage usage if for some reason you can't use Gmail. This program will work with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. This is a hard post for me. Encouraging Outlook usage in any form just isn't right. It's horrible. I mean Nazi horrible. Anyway check the Xobni link out if work forces you to Outlook your email. If you haven't investigated Gmail you might do that at this time. It is a polar opposite of the forever problematic Outlook. It has to be said this is a step in the right direction. At least these software creators are trying to help us.
Now you can go on ignoring me and keep using it along with Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. Enough said.
"What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself."
~Douglas Adams
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