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[yesthattom]

Everyone raves about gmail but I can’t understand how a system that returns to the index between every email message can save you time.

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[awfief.livejournal.com]

I know, I totally hate that. haven't quite written to support about it. Also, removing a label should be as easy as applying a label.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

oh, and are people raving that it saves them time? I switched because my other provider began to be a prick about the way he ran e-mail, and started spam filtering for me. And then wouldn't tell me what he was spam filtering for. I had to move to something different -- I get lots of mail that looks like spam, given stuff with the BRC, and I like to delete my own, thankyouverymuch. It doesn't save me time answering mail, but it does save time searching for stuff.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

If it went back between every mail message, you'd be right, but it doesn't. It goes back between each *thread*.

I use Gmail for voluminous mailing lists where I don't necessarily want to cherish and archive each individual message. Being able to get rid of a 82-message thread with two keystrokes saves me quite a bit of time. I keep my personal mail in my usual system.

Ambar

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

What are you people on about?
Me, I have 'newer' and 'older' "buttons" (text anchors) which take me to the next or previous threads.

Take a look:

[awfief.livejournal.com]

I have that too, but if you want to archive a message, it takes you back to the main screen.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I don't click on buttons (or text anchors). I use the keyboard shortcuts: 'o' to open the thread the pointer is on, then 'y' to archive it when I'm done. 'y' throws me back to the index, which is what I figured Tom was talking about.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I use it for. I'm on one particular list that I like to have ready access to my email, and running grep on my mail box wasn't the most optimal way to find old messages, and the listserv archive isn't that great at searching, either.

If you have problems with it, you should be writing support - this is a beta test, after all. :)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Nice. It ate the <img> tag... http://www.lse.org/~jailbait/gmailclip.tiff

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Using the keyboard shortcuts doesn't appear to do that. However, I don't archive via the keyboard as most of my messages get archived I assign labels to things I need to get at later easily. Otherwise, they get assigned a label as they're received based on where they're from and then archived with the select read option and then archive.