OT - Gmail doesn't not suck -- was Re: Another XFS Fan

[Carl Youngblood]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>  used to do it, but from a fundamental point of view, I've come to the
>  realization that Gmail's handling of many aspects of e-mail is
>  critically flawed.  Conversations, for example, the much lauded feature
>  of gmail, is a major flaw.  While it's kind of cool to preserve a
>  he-said, she-said flow, conversations fundamentally breaks e-mail
>  threads.  Flattening a natural, and often branching, flow of topical
>  conversation into what's essentially a web-based forum where there's a
>  topic, but not threading at all inside of each topic.  This works okay
>  for e-mails you and your mother sent each other, but for a venue like
>  mailing lists, where the conversation flow is often multi-faceted and
>  lengthy, Gmail's system just doesn't work.

Most of my email usage benefits so much from Gmail's conversation view
that this relatively minor inconvenience (I still can engage in
mailing list discussions without difficulty) is well worth it.

Carl