Thanks for your addition to the conversation, Sharon. Just FYI, owners of SPAs are advised to add their own mail accounts as delegates; this enables you to have the SPA in the same browser.
Vivian Sophia Berkeley IT (CSS) Business/Tech Support Analyst University of California, Berkeley 310B Durant Hall (510) 541-6120 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Sharon K. Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Vivian, > > How human memory works is orthogonal to technological quirks or fashions. > Sorting and spatial aspects can help to find things for which one cannot > come up with satisfactory search terms, e.g. to dig up something that the > prior holder of a SPA account misspelled, perhaps by accident, or a contact > one hasn't thought about for more than a decade. > > I currently have two departmental/SPA accounts, one personal, and I > dutifully use different browsers for each. All of my non-campus email is > accessed via Alpine, where roles work properly and folders aren't subject > to silent corruption (sorry, Thunderbird). Google is trying to change > Gmail's "archiving" and labeling model itself, so why rely upon it? Wave > flopped; next is Inbox. > > Sharon > not at all retired > -- > Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project > http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ > http://twitter.com/mtpo > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Vivian Sophia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Jon, >> >> The mail client people use rarely has anything to do with research needs. >> When it does, that is a business reason, and I did acknowledge that >> business needs for fat clients sometimes exist. >> >> I understand that keeping mail on Google's servers would prevent the need >> to move mail from computer to computer. Unfortunately, people don't always >> keep all their mail there. They keep things in local folders, which fat >> mail clients encourage them to do. >> >> Sorting mail is an old way of working. >> The new way of doing things is to let the computer (that is to say, its >> search engine) find things for you instead of using a sort to find them. It >> is also a quicker way of finding something than eyeing a sorted list. >> >> I am totally aware of the difficulty of convincing people to change their >> ways. It's hard enough convincing IT people to change, let alone the rest. >> >> >> >> Vivian Sophia >> Berkeley IT (CSS) >> Business/Tech Support Analyst >> University of California, Berkeley >> 310B Durant Hall >> (510) 541-6120 >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: > > To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe > from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please > visit the Micronet Web site: > > http://micronet.berkeley.edu > > Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and > the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This > means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, > prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. > >
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