On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:42:23 -0600, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ah - new subject: gmail doesn't have folders. what a pain. > > is it just me, or does gmail seem suited to /either/ mailing lists or casual > email, but not both? the problem is that without folders, your 'normal' > email gets lost in all the mailing list traffic. > > is there some obvious way to fix this (ie. am i lame?)
I would be a good netizen and change the subject line, but apparently we're going to have to work out the etiquette of that with the sudden introduction of gmail to our little community. (Although from the sounds of it, the correct answer might just be to blame the person that first changed the topic without changing the subject.) I've only been using gmail for a day now, but I've already had no problem getting labels to work like folders. Just check the "skip INBOX" on the filter that's applying the label. (Although it bugs me that I can't filter on headers like a good MUA should.) I've decided to only use gmail for list traffic. I expect this to work nicely, google will do all the heavy lifting for my high traffic mail. Meanwhile personal and work email will go to another account where I will always have 100% control over the messages. Perhaps the biggest benefit of this is that I can check work and personal mail regularily without being distracted. Hopefully this will help me to stop deleting so much while also only dealing with list traffic one or twice a day. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
