> 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!

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

> > > On May 20, 10:41 am, Whit33­© wrote:

> > > > 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 -

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