Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:35:38 01/07/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 14:40:20, Laurens Winkelhagen wrote:
>On January 07, 2005 at 13:26:57, Pallav Nawani wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2005 at 08:45:43, gerold daniels wrote:
>>
>>>On January 07, 2005 at 07:52:26, Brian Deane wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sent.
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>
>>>what advantage does gmail have that others don,t.
>>>gerold.
>>
>>(a) Lot of hype :)
>>(b) Nifty Javascript/Dhtml mailing application
>>(c) Loads all emails in one shot, so you can access them instantly
>>(d) Continuously checks for other emails in background.
>>
>>Drawbacks:
>>(a) If you have a lot of emails in your inbox, it will take longer to load as it
>>loads all the mail from the server in one go. As the number of emails in inbox
>>increases, it will take progressively longer to load. Not a problem for people
>>with fast connections, though.
>>(b) You can't create folders (At least I saw no way of doing so).
>>(c) Dosen't seem to work on Internet Explorer (At least I was having problems
>>with it).
>>
>>Pallav
>
>
>Gmail doesn't have folder, but it has labels! If you think about it, these
>labels work just like folders, but better.
>I mean, what is a folder? It's a place where you can put e-mails in in order to
>organize your e-mails. Group them according to content or sender. One handy
>feature is that you can set up rules to automatically organize your fresh
>incomming (and sent) e-mail.
>
>You can do these things with gmail-labels also. But here is the kicker: you can
>apply multiple labels to a single e-mail! Group those e-mails according to
>sender _and_ content! Have a label for all work related e-mail, _and_ a label
>for that collegue who is also your best friend! I'd like to see someone try to
>put a single e-mail into multiple folders;-) (without duplicating it of course!)
>
>So in my humble opinion: labels are "folders 2.0".
>
>Greetz, Laurens.
Yes, the labels are exactly like Chessbase and Chess Assistant 'medals'.
Albert
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