On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're missing a subtle but critical feature of threaded email clients. > They have not only the ability to collapse threads by default (giving > you your subtle gmail advantage), but show you the tree structure of > your threads. You wouldn't represent your family history as a linked > list. Why would you represent a tree of emails as a linked list? > > Oh, and watching threads and killing them and everything that you like > about conversations came from the groundbreaking threaded clients of > yestermillenium. The only thing conversations didn't inherit was the > proper paradigm. > > Yes, gmail's web interface is an improvement over outlook and dozens of > also-ran linux clients, but it's still fundamentally flawed. > At this point it comes down to subjective personal experience. I have tried both Thunderbird and Mail.app, and I keep going back to Gmail, because it just works better for me and viewing emails in a tree view is not very important to me. But obviously, to each his own. One thing I've noticed that seems to have influenced my decision is that I used to be very controlling about how I stored my email. I had to have folders for everything and file my messages away in folders on a regular basis. I've noticed that many programmer-types feel this same strong desire for absolute order and control. When I let go of some of this control and started archiving all my processed conversations, it saved me a ton of time, and I was still able to retrieve information when I needed it. I guess you could title this post, "How I stopped worrying and learned to love Gmail." Cheers, Carl /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
