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Gmail improves

Following my various email experiments and complaints, I've settled into a Gmail habit. Google engineered a couple of changes that made Gmail more usable. Now you can retain formatting when you paste rich text into a message you're composing, and you have an option to archive all messages in your inbox, and delete all message identified as spam. (Before you had to page through and select a pagefull of messages at a time).

I still find that I miss some n ew messages because of the way conversations are grouped, but that's probably more a learning curve issue than a problem with the technology.

Storing email on somebody's remote system isn't ideal, but my email load is so heavy that the overhead for downloading and managing messages is just too much, especially with the added processing that spam control requires. When I'm using Gmail, overall local system performance improves dramatically, especially compared to performance when Outlook is running, which is actually Outlook + Qurb + Kaspersky Antivirus.

Gmail does occasionally hiccup. It was offline for a while yesterday afternoon, for instance, and that worried me a bit. (The system says "Oops!" - not really what you want to hear from your mail system or your surgeon.)

jon posted this at 8:17 AM
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