Mac Guidera reminds us that, prior to Lotus Connections 2.5, there was a lone portlet offered to connect with WebSphere Portal. Now, there’s a whole catalog-ful. Mac provides a link to the new catalog.

Dennis Ruddigkeit was trying to configure a Domino server to route mail but the router insisted on ignoring him. A call to IBM gave him the reason, which is "logical", but he still wants to know why that field is hidden.

Almar Diehl got some complaints from users about "empty" e-mails. One used Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), others were using Outlook. It seems the server was "converting" the message format, leaving them empty.

Stephan H Wissel offers some instruction, and lots of screen shots, to help you get the most out of your Notes Archives.

Steve Ballmer has offered IBM a bit of business advice, to be relevant in the tech market IBM needs to be more like Microsoft and gobble risky new ventures.

Bilal Jaffery extends an invitation to Facebook users. Stop by the Lotus Knows page and say hello.

Tony Austin says the free "simple document management system" (SDMS) for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino version 4.5.00 has been released. He provides some screen shots to show you what’s new.

Thomas "Duffbert" Duff says the brave folks who document Lotus Domino Designer, and create the Help system, are looking for your comments. Duffbert provides a link to help you have your say.

It looks like our little DominoPower Q&A series has sparked off a trend. The good news is that it seems to really be helping people, because we get more and more letters asking for help.

Read this DominoPower article.

Interested in working on a Lotus project for eight weeks? Chris Toohey has posted information on a Remote Residency program, starting October 19, having to do with XPages.