got gmail?
For the last 4 days I have been testing out my new gmail account. Okay, I realize that everyone and their brother now has a gmail account, but I didn’t until this past monday.
I love it!!!!
I have two high volume mailing lists that I am on — the List from evolt.org and CF-TALK from House of Fusion. The later list can generate more than 100 emails per day. Gmail makes tracking these very simple.
The way that gmail tracks conversations is brilliant and it makes reading and following threaded emails incredibly simple. When you click on an email, it takes all emails in the thread and places them together on the page. Any email you have not read are expanded while the ones that you have read only show the author and the time they were received along with the first few lines of the subject.
There are a few things that take time to adjust to though. If you reply to an email, gmail retains your reply in the conversation. At first, I wasn’t sure if my emails were being sent or not. However, after a few hours, when people started to reply to my posts, it was quite clear that the emails had in fact been sent. This is very different from normal email behaviour were the email is sent and you have to wait to receive a reply or wait to receive your email back from the mailing list.
Overall, I am quite impressed with the technology that google has put into their gmail service.