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On Oct 24, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us> wrote:
> I love Gmail, I really do. And their apps are good for the purposes
> they
> were designed for (which is for collaboration and editing, NOT for
> printing
> final, formatted copies of your work), but I've got one real problem
> with
> Gmail that may just be MY problem, but I'd love to know if anyone
> else here
> sees this as a problem, and knows of a workaround for it before I
> suggest to
> my school that we let Google take over our email function.
>
> It's the archiving. Not that it can save every embarrassing email
> message I
> ever wrote and the responses; but that it doesn't seem to know when
> to turn
> itself off. I know that their goal is to make it easy to find
> everything
> you've ever sent or received, but their methodology often makes it
> hard for
> me to get through the stuff I want to look through.
>
> For example, I have one Gmail account that everything goes to from
> all my
> other accounts. It also sends stuff as my other accounts. The
> message you're
> reading is coming from that account. As mail comes in from each of
> those
> accounts or somehow triggers a filter option, it gets its own
> particular
> label.
>
> Looking at all of this stuff in the inbox can be a little
> overwhelming, so I
> figure that switching to just looking at the items with one
> particular label
> would make life a little easier. No. Now I'm treated to all the
> messages
> I've archived that also fit under that label. The only way for me to
> just
> see the current messages seems to be to *delete* anything that I
> don't think
> I want anymore.
>
> Is there a better way to handle this?
>
> Thanks.
> --
>
> keg
>
> ========================================
> Keith E Gatling
> Email: keith@gatling.us
> Blog: http://wordfromg.blogspot.com
> Website: http://www.gatling.us/keith
> The fact that I'm open-minded doesn't mean that I have to agree with
> you.
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