gmail annoyance
Gmail's conversational approach to email can be both brilliant and a pain in the arse. The fact that your mail is grouped into threads makes it easy to keep track of what you or the other person said, without having to dig around in the convoluted tree of quoted text at the bottom of a message.
What's really annoying though, is when you want to delete single messages out of a thread. As far as I can tell, unless it's hidden somewhere, you can't do it. You have to delete the entire conversation.
Today, I attempted to spam my friends and colleagues with an email passed on from my boss about some rescued black lab puppies. A large number of my contacts are not up to date though, and so I received a ton of mail delivery bounce back messages, which I can't delete without deleting the whole thread. Balls!
I guess you could create a filter that just archives or deletes those, but that's lame city.
What's really annoying though, is when you want to delete single messages out of a thread. As far as I can tell, unless it's hidden somewhere, you can't do it. You have to delete the entire conversation.
Today, I attempted to spam my friends and colleagues with an email passed on from my boss about some rescued black lab puppies. A large number of my contacts are not up to date though, and so I received a ton of mail delivery bounce back messages, which I can't delete without deleting the whole thread. Balls!
I guess you could create a filter that just archives or deletes those, but that's lame city.