Michael Stover: > Did you use the gmail webapp to write that? No. My public email address is gmail so I get a free spam filter and online archive, but I don't actually use their awful, awful interface. (All incoming mail to that address is forwarded to my real email address, and my outgoing mail is SMTP relayed back through gmail. My real address remains spam free by being secret.)
This does bring me to two rants though: a) Gmail's web interface is horrible, even the basic HTML version. Consider this: right click a message... no "open in new window" option! WTF. I handle, on average, about 170 emails a day. In my mail client (mutt) and my server setup, this is no bother for me. There's no waiting on slow servers. The controls are natural and fluid. I can pick up on another computer right where I left off, thanks to GNU screen. When I'm emailed a dozen attachments, it is a simple case of hitting a button to save them all locally - no annoying scan and downloading of them individually. With gmail, I'd have to click through the messages one thread at a time, never seeing the whole message (their hiding of quoted text and signatures, not 100% accurate!). Try to reply? Have to deal with their godawful editor (with mutt I can just use vim) and the hidden text below it (implicit top quoting, are they on drugs?). With new incoming mail, my computer beeps the second it arrives and is idle while waiting. With gmail, it'd be sitting there polling, at the notice it does give doesn't even compare in terms of usability or speed. Oh, and search? Surely Google could get search right? Nope The worst part? Gmail might have the best of the web mail interfaces. Goes to tell you how dreadfully awful they are in general. b) I am posting this from the digitalmars news web interface. For some reason, my emails don't seem to reliably get through. And this php webnews thing makes gmail look like heaven. It's amazing the level of suck in this thing. I'm sure everyone who has used it will agree so I'll spare you the long rant. But there's times that I feel the greatest service someone could do for D would be to replace this thing!