Re: My own emails

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:29 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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On 02/29/08 15:14, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:11 +0000
Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:20 -0500
"H.S." <hs.samix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello H.S.,

I just discovered the other day that gmail doesn't have folders!
I guess they replaced that with labels.
Which does nothing to improve wading through a list of messages. :-(

Why not? Whenever you would move a message into folder X, just label
it X. Clicking on label X (or entering 'label:X' in the search box)
will then limit the view to all X messages. The only difference
between folders and labels, AFAIU, is that a message can be in only one
folder, but it can have multiple labels. Am I missing something?

(Evolution has something similar, but also still has folders.)

Because with folders the messages are just *there*. No need to
click this, click that, search this, search that.

Here's a link to a screenshot of my nested folders and threaded
email. It's Icedove, but Evo, Sylpheed & KMail, Iceape etc would
all look essentially the same. Outlook would, too, if it knew how
to thread (or I could figure out how to turn it on).

http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Email_screenshot.png

If gmail can do that, then *please* send me a screenshot!

Point conceded. I don't actually use the Gmail webmail interface much
(I download via POP and use Sylpheed). It is still true that Gmail's
labels can be useful for sorting mail, although it's certainly a
different (and arguably inferior) paradigm than the classic folder
hierarchy.

Ron Johnson, Jr.

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