Matthew Walker wrote:
> Not to mention that you don't /need/ gmail invites anymore. You can just go 
> sign up now. :)

Right.  I'm quite behind the times, since I rarely use the web interface
for gmail!  As I mentioned on another thread, GMail has some real warts
when it comes to handling lists.  But it beats MSN which doesn't offer
imap or pop at all.  And Gmail is only usable with an IMAP client, in my
opinion, in the context of mailing lists or conversations with multiple
people on the same thread.

<rant>
My latest complaint with GMail is that their conversations view is only
really good for brief 2-4 message conversations between friends.  It
absolutely sucks for mailing lists.  Completely breaks the threaded
nature of a real mailing list conversation.  Turns what used to be a
nicely nested, easy-to-follow set of posts into a web forum,
essentially, which is a nasty interface for long conversations.  Nothing
sucks more than reading a forum where an interesting topic has like 2000
messages on it, but not threaded at all.  Impossible to really jump back
and learn about the history of the discussion without practically
reading all the posts.  Horrid, horrid interface (the forums I mean).

Forums suck badly.  And Gmail has completely emulated it.  Probably
works for most people that just have a back and forth, but breaks under
conditions as I have mentioned.
</rant>

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