Comments on: Lotus Notes, we still hate you

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:23:36 +0000

Let me guess, Pat. Your pointy-haired boss just imposed Lotus Notes as the corporate standard?

Time to start scanning the job adverts for somewhere less Dilbertesque…

By: pat

pat — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:52:20 +0000

Lotus notes is just absolute pants- it has been designed by morons and you have to be a complete idiot to think it is better than outlook. If anyone buys this out of choice they should be taken away in a padded wagon. The only people using this are people who have to, because it is the coproate programme of choice of the pointy headed.
pat and 300 other disgruntled employees who are not likely to be re-gruntled any time soon.

By: farlig

farlig — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:20:37 +0000

LOTUS NOTES – Acronym:

Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious – No Other Than Evil Sh1t

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:12:23 +0000

I used Notus Lotes a few jobs back — I hated the bloody thing. It’s a programmer-angry/user-angry environment.

Sadly, I actually like Outlook 2003. Dang that Microsoft!

By: Michael Orton

Michael Orton — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:48:51 +0000

I work for a company that has Notes as its corporate standard and I don’t have a problem with it, other than the way it consumes disc space. It burns space on indexes in a way that can, in the extreme, use four times as much space for the index as the mail. It also turns headers into bitmaps and after a while a short exchange can be a very long file.

I don’t understand the rant about “top-posting”. I frequently “Reply with History” and insert comments in that history, in a different colour and nicely indented so one can see how the conversastion has gone.

Mind you, I’m not in a postion to compare it with anything except Outlook Express under Win98 – though that does insist on sending my emails to the spellchecker – something ccMail used to do before it mutated into Notes.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:19:30 +0000

Oh my Lord. We had Loathe-us Notes at my last job, and everyone who used it despised it with a passion. It’s as if they tried to make the program as unusable as possible so that people would break down and just meet each other face-to-face instead of going through the tedium of email.

And don’t diss on Outlook. Outlook 2003 is absolute heaven compared to Notes, and for a while we were even using various kludges that allowed us to keep using Outlook instead of Notes. Then upper management caught on and the fun ended.