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[Michael Stover]

I don't have any problems you seem to have with gmail.  I suspect attitude
is a big difference.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!
>
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