COMM Report #30 July 27, 2002

News:      - New COMMA's in, old COMMA out -- LT Andrew has been brought in as a new COMMA to even out the load of MB's when counting posts for MoC's. COL Ramos has been appointed COMMA in place of the recently resigned LC Sephiroth. - COL Gilkane has also been removed as COMMA for his in-office inactivity. If you are still interested in becoming a COMMA, please email applications to me at teeps10@alltel.net. - The COMM Office has been reposted, and you can find it at http://www.frognet.net/~teeps/comm/ or at http://comm.minos.net/. - The COMM Office staff page will be updated by the end of this weekend, once I receive bios from all the new little COMMA's. :P

New MoC's: There has been some confusion due to vacations around the office, but the MoC lists will be out by this week's meeting time. I will edit them into this report when they have been awarded by the committee. Weekly Top 5: Top 5 suggested Imperial Sports:     5- Jawa vs. Ewok death matches     4- Portman Chasing     3- Stock TIE Fighter Racing (NASTIE? :P)     2- Hoth Hockey     1- Punt the Ewok (Note- this Top 5 is the opinion of the COMM and in no way reflects the opinions of GA Ronin, SA Astatine, or the EH as a whole; it's just intended to be fun)

Ops list updates in #Emperor's_Hammer: Rank/Name Position X Login Access Level Add/Drop/Change HA Keiran Idanian Recon Officer KIdanian 300 Added (old login expired)

COMM Product Review: This Week's Product: Microsoft Outlook Express A fine email client that came standard with my copy of Windows XP (save your boos >:P), I decided to write my own review of this email proggy that Bill Gates has unceremoniously shoved down my throat. Highs: Multiple important features like address book and calendar, and a particularly neat link-up to MSN messenger that automatically loads buddies from MSNM into your Outlook address book. Lows: Not nearly as many features as the full version, like a planner with automatic reminders, etc. Plus an annoying feature that only marks messages as read if they've been open for a certain amount of time, which is just awful for when you get junk mail that you don't want to read. Overall: A decent program despite its misgivings, but rest assured- as soon as I find my Jornada install CD, I'll be switching back to the full version of Outlook. 6 out of 10 COMM Office Stars -Review by COMM/AD Motti

That's all for this week, thanks for reading! Admiral Motti, Communications Officer COMM/AD Motti/CS-8/SSSD Sovereign SSx2/BS/PC/MoT-1rh/MoC-2BoC-2SoC-1GoC/OV-4E {IWATS-SM/1} COMM Office: http://www.frognet.net/~teeps/comm/