Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Crappy email systems

This is one of those days where I just get so annoyed with my school's email system. Firefox users can't get a search feature, that's only available if you use Internet Explorer to access the web-based email system.

Worse, emails to multiple parties are impossible to send off because inevitably, one name will be wrong, or a comma will be there instead of the crazy semi-colon that this systems prefers (even though Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, all use commas to separate addresses), and then you can't send the email out. You have to go through address by address, guessing which email address was wrong. It turns users into computer programmers, checking errors line by line, letter by letter.

Moreover, if you're trying to email a recipient address in a mass email, you can't just click on the name like you can in gmail, and a new compose window pops up. You have to specifically copy, paste, then go back to the main inbox page, then click compose. It's such a pain!

Our school's system is not user-friendly at all!

GRRRRRR...

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