On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:02:04 -0600, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 think it's stil ok to change the subject line if the subject has changed, those guys were just changing the subject on every reply, so they weren't being threaded...I mean uh, conversationalized...at all. > > 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.) Ahh, that should help. > 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. It's been nice to have my UUG mail go here to put gmail through it's paces (I too have been using it only a couple days), but I wonder about the practicality of now keeping all these emails that are already being archived on the net, already pretty much searchable by google....I agree though, nice to keep the UUG mail a little more out of sight, out of mind. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
