Re: Debian forum?
On Apr 11, 2005 12:47 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On a personal note, I like gmail interface but it does not have the
> conventional tree view. The conversation view sucks for high volume
> mailing lists. Also when you reply to a query, it wont automatically
> send the mail to the mailing list. But instead it sends it to one single
> person. If gmail had those two features, then it probably is the best.
> Otherwise I will still stick with thunderbird + gmane news group accounts.
I like using gmail for high-volume lists because I get a very
targetted google search through the mail archives (which, granted, I
could also achieve with site:lists.debian.org). It's also nice to
have the second account separate from my "normal" account, and the
2082MB (and still growing) of storage doesn't hurt, either.
I've suggested adding better mailing-list support, but I didn't get a
response. That might have been due to server problems that hit around
then. Whether the folks at google saw my suggestion or not, it
doesn't hurt for more people to request the same feature. Better
threading would also be a good request. I believe their threshold for
adding a new feature is if 20% of their users want it, or if it seems
like a really good idea to them.
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Reply to: