Re: My own emails

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 02/29/08 17:57, H.S. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 02/29/08 15:14, Celejar wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:11 +0000
>>> Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:20 -0500
>>>> "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello H.S.,
>>>>
>>>>>> I just discovered the other day that gmail doesn't have folders!
>>>>> I guess they replaced that with labels.
>>>> Which does nothing to improve wading through a list of messages.   :-(
>>> Why not?  Whenever you would move a message into folder X, just label
>>> it X.  Clicking on label X (or entering 'label:X' in the search box)
>>> will then limit the view to all X messages.  The only difference
>>> between folders and labels, AFAIU, is that a message can be in only one
>>> folder, but it can have multiple labels.  Am I missing something?
>>
>> (Evolution has something similar, but also still has folders.)
>>
>> Because with folders the messages are just *there*.  No need to
>> click this, click that, search this, search that.
> 
> IIRC, Thunderbird is also going to have the label feature in a big way.
> Wonder how that will change the folders' scene in it.

There are so many people out there using folders, that it would be
suicide for them to remove folders.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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