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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> écrit:
> 
> > You could use automatic expiry so you never feel too far behind in your todo
> > list!  I like it!
> 
> A good laugh to start the day :-).  Thanks!
> 
> > You could also do less useful things, like eventually honor outlook schedule
> > requests from within gnus or something like that.
> 
> By "eventually", you mean that the possibility does not exist, don't you?

Correct.

> Where I often work, I'm taking care of a little island of Unix systems
> plain lost in a sea of WinNT servers and stations, filling offices on
> every floor.  Those Outlook schedule requests do fly around like hell,
> without touching me.  I sometimes feel like the Christ walking over the
> water :-).  Yet, if something exists in or around Gnus that would remove
> this supra-natural protection, I might try to lift it and see how quickly
> I will then drawn...

Some people at our office have started using exchange for scheduling, and
it is already annoying.  My stance is typically to tell them to send me
something I can actually use.  By just ignoring all those MS-Word files
that get sent around, I can get a lot more work done. :)

But it might be handy to deal with meeting requests from gnus or vm.

-Bill P.