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...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...
Another terrific thing that Outlook gave us: a better bozo filter. Filters, as you probably know, allow us to clump together e-mail when it arrives. I have filters that separate into different folders mail to TIME magazine, TIME DAILY and Lunch-L, a mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity...
...anyone compete? One way is price. Several fine e-mail programs, while not quite as good as Outlook, are free. The best of these is Pegasus Mail, which you can find at www.pegasus.usa.com Try it. Maybe you'll sleep better at night than...
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