Posted on 11/10/2011 6:09:52 PM PST by george76
Larry Page is a busy man. The Google CEO wants his company moving quickly and decisively. That, in turn, means eliminating the plodding exchanges fostered by Gmail.com. Who invented that thing, anyway?
"He does not much like e-mail...even his own Gmail, saying the tedious back-and-forth takes too long to solve problems... "
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Page. What a jerk.
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Page. What a jerk.
I just checked Wikipedia ,when you’re right you’re really right
Google never should have been allowed to index and then use anyone’s property without compensation. It’s a business built off the sweatoff orhers.
Web-based gmail is execrably slow and annoying to read and delete messages. But their POP service works slick, and I’m told IMAP does too.
I only use gmail when I don’t want to use my personal email address.
I hate it. It is so amazingly stupid. You can’t delete without going through hoops.
So I don’t even bother trying anymore. lol They want to use space, let them.
Based on the initial quote, it sounds like he’s trying to use email for internal company productivity. And he’s right. You shouldn’t be using email for collaborative work in a corporate setting. It’s too slow and too difficult to maintain a conversation thread, especially if there are more than two people involved. Ideally, things like that should be face-to-face, but at least should be done in a collaborative online environment like Sharepoint.
My fiancee’ has gmail. I loathe it. I have to fix stuff all the time for him and its incredibly user unfriendly.
Don't you just click the selection box and then click delete?
You can but if you haven’t on a regular basis and you have hundreds of old emails . . .
There's a checkbox in the header line. If you check that, it checks all of the e-mails. Then click on "Delete" and they're all gone.
I use gmail via pop3, but if I can't ssh into my home computer to send an e-mail, I can http to gmail.com and post from there.
During our three months of relocation to another job, state, home, web provider, we set up a Gmail account. It does suck. Very basic. But it was great to have during this short time.
It deletes 1 page at a time and how do I get to the last page so I can start there?
Shame on you for getting the real point of the article. I was reading down the thread, post after post bashing gmail, when the point of the article was clearly how inefficient email is in a collaborative context.
The author and subject are merely pointing out that email, and by inclusion, gmail, are dysfunctional.
Oddly enough, the client I consult at blocks web collaborative tools like google docs or Skydrive or even screen sharing. I deal with team members on a different continents, and we pretty much have to work in emails.
We’re not being as efficient as we could be.
I don't know a shortcut to get to the last page. When I've cleared mailboxes at gmail, 100 at a go was good enough. I rarely use gmail as my reader. A cronjob grabs the messages each 10 minutes using fetchmail, and my gmail inbox accumlates at most a few messages in that interval.
I have 50 pages and over 2000 emails. Guess I should get started. lol
Heh. You can get 100 to show on a page. If you assume all of them are spam, it's pretty quick chore - but if you aim to read a couple thousand subject lines, well, dang, that's a tough chore.
I get a few thousand spams a month, so run an aggressive (local) spam filter on what fetchmail brings home.
You click "oldest", shich should be way over on the right side.
Any time you have to scan through thousands of messages it's going to be a lot of work.
I have no strong opinion on gmail, but the spam filter seems to be really good for me -- rarely does spam ever get through.
Yeah none of my spam gets through either. It is entirely possible that I subscribe to too many threads on too many websites. ;-D
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