I am not surprised to see this issue resurface to the near the top of the discussions. I just received my notification that my subscription will expire in 7 days (hardly a long enough lead time ... hello, people sometimes go offline for an entire week) ... but if I renew RIGHT NOW I'll save $10.
I don't appreciate the extreme time pressure and my first reaction was, well, I don't have time to really evaluate whether I wish to renew right now ... so I'll grab that discount offer & renew today. Then I remembered the countless hours (no exaggeration) grouping my contacts in Google. And having to continuously check in iCal for contacts that are not in any group (not an easy affair, by any means, via the user interface!!) and group them on that side. Particularly with the advent of Google Voice, contact groups in Google have become very meaningful. In Google Voice there are settings for which voicemail to play for which group, for example, which phone(s) to ring for each group, and whether to enable call screening for a group. Upon these reflections I realized that Spanning Sync is more trouble than it's worth, for this ONE REASON, that we cannot match up Address Book groups with Google Groups for syncing, as we can do with calendars. Therefore I've decided to run one last sync, use Google Groups as the place I group my contacts, and to not group them in Address Book at all. (I do not use Apple Mail so groups in Address Book are not terribly useful for me anyhow). As for my calendars, particularly as an Android user, I'm moving more and more to using Google Calendar as my primary calendar app and I will just go all the way with that idea. If I'm not on my laptop, I have my phone with me, so the need for a desktop calendar is moot. IN SHORT: Dear Spanning Sync: If you had group-to-group contacts sync happening I would probably be renewing. Oh well. kazar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en.
