Curse You, MicroSquash Outlook!

I've just spent ten minutes on an internal e-mail that should have taken 30 seconds. I haven't used Outlook much and so I really don't understand it. And we all know how well I take to things that are new. Okay, not as badly as some ...
Anyway, it's almost imposs. to send an e-mail until you have your recipients straight and they have to be separated by semi-colons rather than the commas used by just about every other e-mail format I have ever used since I started messing around with the internet in 1995, and I started out with Pine-mail in ascii!
All I was trying to do was point out the handy article on creative dramatics in the latest issue of Book Links to my co-workers (who are scattered to the winds today: one out, one at circulation, and one busy putting together a storytime) and I had to re-send this e-mail over and over until I figured out I need to
1. use the semi-colons
2. delete the set of addressees with the commas
before it would actually send it.
I think.
Perhaps my co-workers have received six versions of this not-so-critical e-mail.
This is even worse than the confusion I have over tags (such as in the block below on my posting screen, which you can't see, but I assure you is there). Here in Blogger tags are separated by commas. Some places they are separated by spaces so you can't have two-word tags unless you run them together as one word or, in the case of some sites, put a "+" between them. We all know that my persona is alllllll over the web at this point (just click on the tiny claimID button way at the bottom of this blog to see some of the bits I know about), so I'm taggin' like a third grade class at recess here. Consequently, my tags might fall short of ideal. "You're It!" "Am not!" "I tagged you!" "You missed!" "Did not!" "Did too!" ad fisticuffs.
If I learn anything more about Outlook, I'll let y'all know when I stop bleeding.