Talk:Gmail/Archive 14

Should Keep The Beta Status
I noticed that the Beta "header" had been removed. I don't think this should be done. Google still classifies Gmail as a Beta. I think we should be following what the developers classify it as, because they obviously know best. Because Google still has it as a Beta product, I added the Beta tag back in.

Thanks, Speedboxer


 * I agree.--XMBRIAN 04:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed, just for the record. --Mambo Jambo 20:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * There is beginning to be an edit war on this page. Jammerpunk1089 removed the  tag at the top, which was previously removed, then replaced.  Something needs to be done about this.  --  Tuvok  ^ Talk 03:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Let's leave it off until it's thoroughly resolved on the discussion page. I contend that the beta notice should not be placed in this article, as the software doesn't meet the specification of the beta notice: it does not change "rapidly," the development is at the speed of ordinary out-of-testing software, and it's just as stable as the non-betas of its competitors. Sean Hayford O&#39;Leary 00:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * i oppose on the beta tag, as it is not actualy fast changing or unstable, as Sean Hayfor pointed out. I don't object to including it in the text tho, I just don't think tag warning readers is warrented. Martijn Hoekstra 02:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I still think that the Beta tag should still be on the article. Compared to other email providers, Gmail's development is quick. Plus, it still has the "Beta" in the Gmail header, so Google still thinks of it as a Beta, and I'm sure they know best about their Product being Beta or not. So, I believe that the Beta tag should be placed on this article. Speedboxer 07:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)


 * What is actually beta about it, is the +talk feature. not the email service itself. Tekjester 10:13, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Do you have a source for that? If you do, IMO it would be conclusive that it is NOT a beta service. Martijn Hoekstra 22:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Philosophy
Can someone write about the design philosophy behind Gmail? For example, one of thing they promote is that this is a new way to do email because you are supposed to keep all your old email ready to retrieval in case you need to look it up. We also used to cleaning up our mail box regularly and Google told us to stop doing that. That is a 180&deg; change in how email is used. There should be more discussion on this topic in the article. Kowloonese 01:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorting in gmail
Have any of the more serendipitous of you kind folks out there discovered any workarounds, any kludges, any clumsy or inelegant solutions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge for those of us who like to sort gmail, spam and trash in alternate ways, alphabetically, by author, by size, by number of lines and so forth?... serendipity through varied types sortings

Or have the more serendipitous of you kind folks discovered how to search by initial sequences of characters in the Subject lines of messages?... for example searching for all message Subjects beginning with ab*, ac*, ad* and so forth or searching for all message subjects beginning with a particular word or words.

Forwarding gmail messages to Yahoo mail has been one problematical method of doing this. Any other ideas?... hints?, tips?, pointers?dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 11:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)