Christian Goeller wrote:
Gordon, you wrote on Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:59:40 -0000:

Did MS actually do any consulting with "normal" users about this,

Send your wishes and suggestions to mswish(at)microsoft.com with
"Outlook" in the subject line ;-).

But it seems they just "produced" Outlook 2003 with this un-turnoffable
function!