Re: Lotus Goats

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From: Jonathan Katz
Subject: Re: Lotus Goats
Date: 00:26 on 01 Feb 2004
On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 09:59 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:

> Yeh, you have to use "attach".

Yeah, I found that out the hard way...

> The problem with Notes is that it's not a mail client. It's a 
> distributed
> database... kind of like you'd get if you were to give a bunch of 
> old-time
> mainframe hacks and DBAs the job of building the World Wide Web... 
> with the
> Notes client the browser. So that message you're editing? That's a 
> document,
> with 3270-like fixed fields mixed up with editable sections. Think of 
> it as
> a mail program you're going to get all messed up.

Exactly; we've been forced to use Lotus Notes as *gasp* Change Control 
Tool as our management has all up through the ranks as former mainframe 
operators.

> The problem is that it doesn't seem to be something any reasonably 
> skilled
> Notes hacker would think of writing... because by the time they've 
> become
> skilled enough thir brain has been rewired for the Notes world... it'd 
> be as

One of our Siebel Application admins is a former Notes admin. He tried 
doing some neat tricks involving filtering but was shot down as his 
changes were "unauthorized by corporate." He absolutely hates Notes and 
was nearly ashamed to admit that he used to write software for it.

There's stuff above here

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