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More options Jul 5, 1:51 pm

From: CordlessCarrots

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:51:40 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 1:51 pm

Subject: Re: Conversations

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This repeated pat answer does not demonstrate any willingness on the
part of Google to address the needs of Gmail users. Grouping emails
into conversations is a good idea, but only when a user approaches
emails as conversations. For many purposes this is not only
inconvenient behavior of an email interface, it can be positively
disastrous to a business relationship. If a sender happens to pick a
subject line of an old conversation, a brand new email can be
effectively lost, as it does not appear to be a new and discrete
message. I have completely ceased use of the Gmail web interface for
this reason. In my business, familiar subject lines are used
repeatedly by the same senders, and conversation grouping is
farcically inefficient in that context. Google needs to make this
"feature" optional. The rote suggestion to change a subject line to
start a new thread is an obtuse and condescending way of telling users
that their needs are unimportant to Google.

On Jun 17, 12:52 pm, Whit33© wrote:

> Gmail considers a number of factors when grouping messages into
> conversations, but from time to time messages are improperly grouped
> or separated. At the moment, Gmail doesn't offer the functionality to
> manually separate or group these conversations.

> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7189&topic=12848

> if the subject line changes then it will start a new thread

> On Jun 17, 3:23 pm, Are We Not Men ? wrote:

> > No way to disable "conversations"??

> > Please say it isn't true! I can never find my new mail because it all
> > becomes a tab on an old email that is already marked "read". There has
> > to be a way to disable this stupidity. I want new mail to be new mail,
> > not be shoved to the bottom of a stack of old mail. I don't want some
> > robot cutting and pasting my email messages together into a
> > Frankenstein's Monster email.

> > My company forces me to use gmail because our ISP forces us to use it.
> > Every single bug and defect of gmail that I have tried to fix or turn
> > off in settings has turned out to be something Google broke on purpose
> > and called it a "feature"! Worse yet, every question I have ever asked
> > has been answered "NO! YOU CAN"T DO THAT!" Google knows best. Google
> > is god. All users are stupid and worthless.

> > Google has the only email I know of that says "you will do it our way
> > - no options, no exceptions!" I have been using using computers for
> > almost 20 years, and doing email for over 15 years with no problems
> > till I got stuck in the vortex of gmail chaos. We had more options
> > using the old DOS batch files. Google's email is the worst email I
> > have tried and possibly the worst software of any kind that I have
> > ever used.

> > And, there do not seem to be any plans to fix it in the future. They
> > don't even notice that it is broken. YUCK!

> > ====================================================================

> > > i`m sorry but the conversation threading can not be turn off. if you
> > > changed the subject line it will start a new thread.

> > > On May 20, 11:32 am, LordAlgonQuin wrote:

> > > > Can Idisableconversationsso I can read my messages normally?
> > > > Whenever I forward e-mails or send an e-mail to multiple users, it all
> > > > ends up in the same conversation. I don't know which message people
> > > > are responding to. Gmail fails to recognize that multiple user
> > > > addresses equals multipleconversations.- Hide quoted text -

> > - Show quoted text -

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