> I apologize for wrongly associating you with Google. It was a mistaken
> impression fostered by the fact that in searching for the answer to
> this problem, I have found identical comments authored by you which
> tow the company line that conversation view is necessarily better and
> offer no indication that you think there might be a legitimate reason
> someone might not want this mandatory feature of Gmail.

> Perhaps your contributions to threads on this subject would be
> received more warmly if you were to present them more like this:

> "I`m sorry, but the conversation threading can not be turned off. If
> you
> change the subject line, it will start a new thread. I agree that the
> inability to turn off conversation view is a failing of Gmail which
> should
> be addressed. Google has provided a place for you to make such
> suggestions here:

> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest"

> ______

> bkennely's post above displayed that kind of helpfulness without
> making me feel that my way of reading email is defective. If you don't
> want to be mistaken for a Google representative, you might try
> sounding like you think they may have possibly made a mistake.

> On Jul 5, 9:22 am, Whit33­© wrote:

> > Also We all are Gmail users on this group AND NOT GOOGLE EMPLOYEES
> > who Volunteer our Time on these Group.

> > and only Google employees post on these group is the Gmail Guides with
> > Blue G Badges.

> > On Jul 5, 4:51 am, CordlessCarrots wrote:

> > > 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
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