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...always been a fan of Eudora, the versatile, easy-to-use Internet e-mail program. It wasn't just that it was named after Mississippi legend Eudora Welty (inspired by her short story "Why I Live at the P.O."). Nor was it that Steve Dorner, the guy who wrote the program a decade ago and gave it away free, personally answers the 1,000 e-mail messages he gets each week from admirers and flamers alike. What I loved most about Eudora was that, aside from working beautifully, it is not owned by Microsoft...
...with Microsoft's $100 e-mail program, Outlook 98. It came out in March, but I resisted, finally installing it a few months ago. I won't be reverting to the $40 Eudora Pro 4.0 (not even if Eudora changes its name to "Fry," after Stephen Fry, my favorite novelist this month...
...with IE, Microsoft has beefed up Outlook until it does everything the competition does, and then some. For instance, Outlook handles addresses better than Eudora and saves my weary fingers wear and tear. Send or reply to a message, and the recipient's name and address are automatically filed in a directory. Next time you send that person a message, a few keystrokes of the name will prompt Outlook to finish...
Remember last week, when word broke that versions of Microsoft's and Netscape's e-mail programs were afflicted with a nasty glitch, and we advised you to buy a "bug-free" copy of Qualcomm's Eudora? Umm, never mind! It turns out that the latest iterations of the popular Eudora Pro (4.0 and above) have an equally gaping security hole that could let bad guys get into your PC. If you use it, be sure to get the patch at eudora.com...
...Back up your hard drive. Get the patches now. (And if you keep the original programs on disks, label them so you'll remember the patch if you ever reinstall.) Better yet, do what I do: buy a better e-mail program. I've always used Qualcomm's Eudora, which is killer-bug free...