dgallup
Automotive
- May 9, 2003
- 4,712
The powers that be recently upgraded all the MS exchange servers within our corporate email structure. As per normal, they completely hosed up several things such as reversing the user name convention so it is impossible to sort or search by TO or FROM fields (well, you can but you have to do it twice). But I digress.
My real reason for posting is I am now being contacted by someone from the future. Unfortunately, nothing is getting through but the sent date of Friday July 10, 2893 6:44 PM. These emails have no sender, no subject, no body and are not sent to anybody but somehow they end up in my inbox. All the emails in my draft folder now also have this date. I'm relieved to know my life expectancy has increased dramatically but now I'm concerned I have not saved enough for my old age. I'm also rethinking my position on Obama care.
Curiously, Outlook sorts this date to the bottom of the list as if it occurred in the distant past. Is this another of the famous built in limits of Microsoft technology like 640k memory limits and 65536 rows by 256 columns in Excel?
If I Google this date I see that people have been getting these mysterious dates for years but I have not found a single useful reply. Sometimes the hour changes but I assume this is a time zone thing. Is this the end of the world according to Bill Gates? Will Skynet finally become self aware in 2893? (I see no evidence of it happening by 2029). I have found no useful info on any MS site (no big surprise there). Of course, our corporate "help desk" is clueless. So I am turning to the best source of answers I know short of a Ouija board.
Oh Eng-Tips geniuses, where do these emails come from and how can I get them to stop? What is the significance of the date & how do I reset my draft emails? Is the world coming to an end?
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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.
My real reason for posting is I am now being contacted by someone from the future. Unfortunately, nothing is getting through but the sent date of Friday July 10, 2893 6:44 PM. These emails have no sender, no subject, no body and are not sent to anybody but somehow they end up in my inbox. All the emails in my draft folder now also have this date. I'm relieved to know my life expectancy has increased dramatically but now I'm concerned I have not saved enough for my old age. I'm also rethinking my position on Obama care.
Curiously, Outlook sorts this date to the bottom of the list as if it occurred in the distant past. Is this another of the famous built in limits of Microsoft technology like 640k memory limits and 65536 rows by 256 columns in Excel?
If I Google this date I see that people have been getting these mysterious dates for years but I have not found a single useful reply. Sometimes the hour changes but I assume this is a time zone thing. Is this the end of the world according to Bill Gates? Will Skynet finally become self aware in 2893? (I see no evidence of it happening by 2029). I have found no useful info on any MS site (no big surprise there). Of course, our corporate "help desk" is clueless. So I am turning to the best source of answers I know short of a Ouija board.
Oh Eng-Tips geniuses, where do these emails come from and how can I get them to stop? What is the significance of the date & how do I reset my draft emails? Is the world coming to an end?
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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.