On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:44:28 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:10:23 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

"Linea Recta" on Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:36:35
+0200 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:

Disappointing they seem to have abandonrd the common sense options...

It is Google. They will decide what is common sense, and make you
use it. Whether it works for you or not. E.G., what they did with
Google Groups has made the archives impossible to search. Which is
not a good look for a Company which started as "search" engine.

When Google started offering webmail they offered a simple no-nonsense
editor that worked well.

But they kept "enhancing" it so that I now find it impossible to use.


As far as I'm concerned, Google webmail and all other webmail has
*always* been poor. It's the worst possible way to do e-mail. Many
people don't realize it, but you can read and write gmail with almost
any e-mail program. And almost any e-mail program is a far better way
to do it.



I check my Gmail about once a month or so, mainly to delete spurious
"notifications" that some websites insist on sending me. I now use
use my Gmail address only for giving to sites that went to send me
notifications or offers or newsletters that I don't want cluttering up
my inbox, and bulk delete them every few weeks.

If anyone sends me anything that needs a reply, I forward it to myself
on my proper e-mail address and reply there where I have an editor
that works.



Why not simply read your gmail in your "proper" e-mail program?