I’ve been using Gmail for a while now and on the whole I like it. The interface is slick and though I disagree with its lack of accessibility, it does the rest of the job nicely. The search is fantastic, as you’d expect, having “labels” instead of “folders” makes a lot of sense (basically you can double-group things) and the conversations are great (Gmail automatically puts all the replies to an email together in a thread).
Except for one thing.
Sometimes it gets the conversations wrong — or rather, doesn’t put things together when they really are part of the same thread. I imagine this happens because someone replies with a different subject, or doesn’t quote the whole email you sent them when they reply or whatever and the algorithm simply isn’t good enough. That’s not a problem. It’s a complicated piece of logic and there’s no telling what people will do with emails sometimes.
But I would really really like the ability to go “hey, this is really another episode in that previous thread I had”, tick each and just merge the two together.
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August 31st, 2004 at 4:17 AM
Hi Meri,
I really want to try Gmail. Any idea how I could get on.
Your comments make me very interested!
Thanks in advance for your help.
JP
September 11th, 2004 at 12:25 PM
hello mary… im looking for a gmail invitation and i wondered if you… My name is nach0, iam from Spain and i would be very happy to receive one from you if dont mind…
Thank you Mary. Kissis
November 25th, 2004 at 9:25 AM
I’d love to have that feature too. I wish they’d include that soon. 🙂