www.CostaRicaTicas.com

...woops.....you is right Kimo Sabe.....but they don't have the pretty folder looking deally bob that I like to look at.....

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

Get with the 21st century just because they are called folders are just a label or actually a flag attach to any mail you think you have on a folder. Now that the technical part is out of the way, Labels = folders. If you need more granularity then use filters.

BTW – I just check with the Gmail developers and they told me that they ask you to test because they wanted to make Gmail idiot proof. They figure you were a perfect candidate.

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....but J0sie....I am muy Tico.....folders ARE 21st Century. Labels are sticky pieces of paper you put on the edge of a folder so you can write or even type the name of the folder on the label. If you're lucky they (the labels) even have a self adhesive strip on one side, otherwise it has to be licked to stick to the folder. That's what I told Google, not to mention that even when you use the gmail label it still don't leave the inbox unless you archive it....yet another step for the Joe Average who just wants to see a folder because well...it looks like a folder...it just has a sticky label on it!!!....I haven't heard from them in a while now that I think about it....

Anyway....we're trying to help Patriot out here and he don't need to learn Google lingo....waste of time....the analysis of gmail for power users is a different story....but for the mainstreamer, there are too many "built ins" within Gmail (yes, you can shut them off....we're not here to compare the software....it has it's use....again the focus is Joe Average User Keep It Simple; I'm sick of having to learn new lingo; I am used to what a folder looks like and I don't want to start re-learning how to do email again, etc.) and both hotmail and yahoo are following I'm afraid with the add on stuff that is.... Stuff like hushmail.com as well as safe-mail.net....both free accounts have their usages, blah, blah, blah.

For J0sie only: http://townie1.homestead.com/files/lose.wav

....and Google itself notes: "Actually, Gmail doesn't use folders."

PS: My CRT account is tied to a gmail.com address. It doesn't have a label because gmail won't let me make a folder!!!

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

Wish I had read the comments earlier but it is not an issue; I decided to go with gmail.

Admin is really good to because he has already updated my profile.

As far as folders are concerned not an issue because I use OE. The other features the email services provide are just fluff and not really needed. Just like a camera on a cell phone: nice idea but not worthwhile.

Besides I can always sign up for the other email services and use them for secondary stuff.

Thanks for the advice.

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I have accounts in gmail, Yahoo, and hotmail. I agree with the difficulty of archiving emails, but I can usually gather all of my emails via the Search function.

What I liked was being able to transfer my emails on a paid account to gmail. I've been paying for the service because it contained, "evidence" of a small claims suit against a former business partner.

Good news, Gmail fans (and you know who you are)--it, Calendar, Docs and Talk are finally out of 'Beta'. Jeez O'Murphy took them long enough--WW II didn't last this long (US involvement).
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/c ... oogle.html

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