On 7 Jul 2004 at 6:08, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > My favorite bit, though, is that it's a (relatively) full-featured > email system, and it's Web-based. No more coming home after work and > having to weed through the emails I already read while in the office, > as was necessary when I used POP3 email clients in both places. There > are still some things I'd like to see changed, but they are relatively > minor compared to the benefits as I see them.
My ISP provides a very full-featured webmail interface, so I can use that when away from my base PC. But for those whose ISP's lack that, there's always http://mail2web.com/, which allows anyone to read their POP mail through a web interface from anywhere on the Internet. The basic functionality is free, and it's pretty good (though not as full- featured as what my ISP provides). As to gmail, the big innovation, I think, is the way they are trying out alternative ways of organizing the email. They thread it (and don't give you any real alternatives, so far as I understand), and force all messages that are part of the same conversation to sort together. This would drive me absolutely nuts, as I'm really not interested in searching through the message headers I've already read. And I've heard lots of complaints from gmail users that it is too inflexible in this regard. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
