On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:19:25PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > > > 3) Also, just to repeat myself. Gmail automatically "threads" emails > > > by subject, so it is very nice to read as they say it's like having a > > > conversation with people. > > > > Well, that's a feature of every decent mail reader (and has been so > > for a dozen years...) > > True. But Gmail collects them in "conversations" so rather that having > to click on each message within a thread and then scroll through the > message to view it, all I have to do is scroll down the page and > follow along with the conversation just like looking at a web page or > something. (To have to move the mouse around and click on each message > and then scroll through the message is tiresome for me, call me lazy > :-} ),
Call _me_ lazy, but I usually spend exactly one keystroke per mail I read - that's 'd' as in 'delete-the-one-that-I-just-read-and-show-me-the-next-one'. Of course, if there's more than ~80 lines in a mail I have to press <space> do scroll down, but I'd guess way more than 80% of my mails are shorter than that. > > For 1) and 2) I rather rely on my laptop than relying on someone > > keeping _my_ data. It might be a bit different when only used for > > public mailing lists, but then I rather have all of my > > correspondence in one place, public or not. > > If all I ever used was one single laptop I would definitely agree, but > I use probably four different computers in any given week. I am in the same ballpark, but then I keep 'private' stuff and 'work' separated, and for 'stuff at work' I have a completely different set of 'privacy rules'... > I'm not too worried about Google going anywhere in the near future, > but if something were to happen it would be easy enough to POP3 all my > messages for backup (which may not be a bad idea anyway now that you > made me think of it ;-) ). Unless this service is shut down without prior notice. And even if it is not shut down you never know who accesses your data. > There may be riot or something if Gmail vanished. Would definitely be an interesting experiment .... Andre'
