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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: MS Outlook fails to import iCal export file
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:16:55 +0200
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On Apr 3, 2006, at 22:47, Philip Rooke wrote:

> No, I wouldn't do that.
>
> Some more investigation shows that including a METHOD: line in the
> Org-mode export file (and leaving the VERSION at 2.0) also allows the
> import to succeed.  This, together with some Googling on issues
> importing to Outlook 2000, seems to indicate that this workflow is
> unlikely to ever work - or, at the very least, it will be rather
> fragile.  There are too many problems with the (fully patched) Outlook
> 2000 client I am using.  Sorry to trouble you.

Sometimes you really wonder what this whole town of programmers at 
Microsoft are doing with their time.....

- Carsten