On 31/03/10 00:23, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 31 March 2010 00:15, John Vandenbergjayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Of course I can read my email via gmail.com, which hides the "crap", however that is not ideal when I want to read my email and compose responses while I am offline.
Get Gmail Offline, then! (You turn it on somewhere in preferences.) It uses Google Gears to enable you to read and compose emails offline and it syncs when it has a connection.
Again, Gmail Offline is a proprietary product, and stores all of your mail in Google's cloud.
It's perfectly reasonable for people not to want either, and make their own choice of both client and storage medium. Mailing lists, and the ecosystem surrounding them, have worked just fine for around 40 years; why break something that works just fine for other people as it is currently?
-- Neil