On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:31:06 -0400, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > My ISP provides a very full-featured webmail interface, so I can use > that when away from my base PC.
Well, I suppose SBC's (run from the Yahoo! Mail engine) is full-featured as well, but it's just way too slow. Also, it can't compare to MS Outlook or Entourage or OS X Mail in terms of flexibility and speed. Gmail can, though, as it's very fast and growing every day in terms of its flexibility. A few of the small things I've suggested have already been implemented. Also, since I used to check my main email from POP clients at both home and work, it's pretty tedious sorting through mail I've already read at work once I get home, and vice versa. I use multiple computers on a regular basis, so "away from my base PC" happens every day. > But for those whose ISP's lack that, there's always > http://mail2web.com/ Argh. I hate mail2web. It's the slowest, most unwieldy piece of Internet software I've ever seen. > As to gmail, the big innovation, I think, is the way they are trying > out alternative ways of organizing the email. Yes, that's a big innovation, too. I like the label system a lot. Multiple labels can be applied to messages, so if I get a message that fits into more than one of my predefined categories it can appear in both places easily. > 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. You don't have to view all of the old headers. By default, you just see what looks like a stack of index cards. If you click in the middle of the stack, they separate just enough that you can see only who the message is From and either who the message is To or the beginning of the body (depending on your settings). > And I've heard lots of complaints from gmail users that it is > too inflexible in this regard. Well, I've heard those complaints too. If gmail stayed exactly as it is right now I doubt I would be investing as much time into it, but since it's still evolving I have great hope for its future. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
