On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]>wrote:
> "useful" web interface is up for debate regarding gmail: where the EF are > my threads? Do you know where in the thread I am replying right now, and > to whom? Only because I quote correctly. </rant> > > But seriously, I don't know of any modern university IT department who > also doesn't have "tons of storage" along with IMAP and POP access. > Well, I can give you one that doesn't: Cornell's in-house system (which is still running, I think, although they're trying to move everybody off of it) only offer something like 200 MB of storage, which is very easy to fill, even without trying to use email for storing much. And the web interface we had before was a joke - it took six or seven clicks just to get to the most recent messages, messages weren't sorted by anything by default as far as I could tell, and even when you got them sorted by date, the most recent loaded at the bottom, and it took the server 1-2 minutes to send you the previous 100 or so messages on that page. I used Evolution because there was no other feasible way to read email, but I couldn't use it on library computers, and thunderbird portable is a hassle to bring everywhere with you. So, from a usability standpoint, a lot of us here welcomed Google with open arms, but there's shockingly little thought about the privacy ramifications. We tried to raise some awareness, but FCCornell is suffering from, er, acute member shortage.
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