Getting further ot, but RE: Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage Systems) at Living Computer, Museum,

Think of a rigid requirement of a specific mail program, or other largely interchangeable tool, as an asshole/not-asshole filter of employERs. My employer (a community college system) uses Outhouse, and more than once a week IT/helpdesk has to try again to explain phishing, and begging people to not open attachments. People who pass on urban legends, as "TRUE", get thanked by their colleagues, debunkers get chastised for "being mean". Last week was the "cell phone DO NOT CALL". There is a concerted effort to AVOID compliance with the state mandate of teaching "information competency". Yesterday, we received a > MB email that consisted of a single sentence. BUT, it was tilted a few degrees, and the signature was a different color. One of our top administators, to send out that single sentence, had created a Weird document, printed it out, SCANNED that, and sent it out as an attachment to an email with a Subject: line of "FYI", and a message body (other than the attachment), of "Open the attachment." BTW, many years ago, they employed substantial additional temporary staff to do scanning when they changed the OFFICIAL word processor from WordPervert to Weird. They tried to fire one of my colleagues for being a hoarder, and retrieving working computer hardware from college dumpsters (including an 11/70, which was no longer in his office). They gave him 2 hours to get what he could out of his [admittedly JAM-PACKED] office and then dumpstered everything else that he hadn't stuffed into his car, including NorthstarS, Sol, and a few more S100 machines. I don't think that I can manage to avoid getting fired [for doing my job] for another 3.64 semesters. Thursday, I gave copies to a student who requested them, of the Grand Jury investigation into our administration and the Accreditation Commissions' report when they placed our accreditation "on probation". -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com