21 years of using IBM and Lotus email systems
Category PROFS NOTES
The day after my 40th birthday, I realized it had been exactly 21 years since I got my first email account. It was if I remember rightly Tylerc2@NossVM6. This was my IBM PROFS address and I was given it the day I started there. This ID was my single signon to IBM systems, it gave me access to IBM forums (discussion databases) accessed all over the world by IBMers and my PROFS email. An email system with out of office, group scheduling etc. that all worked just fine, it even had some viruses. After PROFS I had a short stint using a test deployment of OfficeVision at IBM Hursley before leaving for Lotus and getting Lotus Notes 1.x for about 2 weeks before getting Notes 2 installed. Since then I've always had a copy of Notes in use alongside at times a copy of Outlook or Outlook express. So I was thinking what has kept me using Lotus Notes as email all this time? For me it has been the Full Text Search, I am one of those email users that Admins hate. I don't use folders, but I really know how to use search. I can remember words or phrases used in emails from years ago so I can find them pretty easily, so folders just seem like an extra burden to me. I don't actually use the inbox, I live in All Documents. So if inbox is the performance killer that admins hate so much can I just get rid of it?
The day after my 40th birthday, I realized it had been exactly 21 years since I got my first email account. It was if I remember rightly Tylerc2@NossVM6. This was my IBM PROFS address and I was given it the day I started there. This ID was my single signon to IBM systems, it gave me access to IBM forums (discussion databases) accessed all over the world by IBMers and my PROFS email. An email system with out of office, group scheduling etc. that all worked just fine, it even had some viruses. After PROFS I had a short stint using a test deployment of OfficeVision at IBM Hursley before leaving for Lotus and getting Lotus Notes 1.x for about 2 weeks before getting Notes 2 installed. Since then I've always had a copy of Notes in use alongside at times a copy of Outlook or Outlook express. So I was thinking what has kept me using Lotus Notes as email all this time? For me it has been the Full Text Search, I am one of those email users that Admins hate. I don't use folders, but I really know how to use search. I can remember words or phrases used in emails from years ago so I can find them pretty easily, so folders just seem like an extra burden to me. I don't actually use the inbox, I live in All Documents. So if inbox is the performance killer that admins hate so much can I just get rid of it?
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