On 8/3/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I find that the Gmail interface, and the way it works,
is great for
mailing lists. Conversations are sensibly stacked making things very
easy to read. Labels are easily added to conversations and archiving
gets everything out of the way.
Plus, you can search the whole collection.
The worst thing is you can only see 20 messages at a time when
searching. Trying to perform some operation on every message
satisfying some criteria is a pain in the arse.
I use the Gmail interface exclusively, and general, yeah it works well
(particularly like its way of detecting "quoted text"), but I find
that once messages have scrolled out of the active view they're very
difficult to find again. Unlike a normal mail program, where scrolling
down is trivial.
YMMV.
Steve