electricland

Graaagh.

So I wrote an email and pasted some text into it from a Word document. Hit
Send. Got a dialog box that informed me the message used a character set
that wasn't found in the font I was using (or something like that) and
would I like to send it in ISO-something or the best native character set?
I realized that the curly quotes from the Word document were probably what
was causing the problem, hit Cancel on the dialog box, fixed the curly
quotes, and hit Send again.

Then I got a dialog box that said "Are you sure? This message has already
been sent to one or more recipients."

Uh.

I told it yes, I was sure (because you can't trust it). Officemate, who
was one of the recipients, did indeed get two copies of the message. So in
other words, Lotus Notes gave me a dialog box that implied it wasn't going
to send the message until I made a decision WHILE SENDING THE MESSAGE
ANYWAY.

It is a minor irritation, but one of so very many. Last week I discovered
a number of websites devoted to explaining how, exactly, Lotus Notes
sucks. I am not surprised.