On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Since I've never used gmail (and refuse to ever do so), I don't know the interface... other that to note that *all* webmail ranges from "mostly useable" (I'm using squirrelmail here at work for my own account) to utterly lousy (i.e., Lookout, er, Outlook Web Access).
Heh. If you use gmail's web interface, you don't even care about how someone responds. It will automatically hide the parts you've already seen, regardless of how they are quoted or whether they are above/below the new parts. It replaces them with ellipses (...) that you can click to expand in case you've forgotten the context, and it (optionally) places the message in its thread context with the posts you have already read collapsed, but likewise easily expanded. And of course if you need to find something that isn't already arranged to be a click away you can search for it. Google knows how to search.
Also, I'm willing to bet that that Outlook Web server that you are ranting about is the decade+ old 2003 version. The 2010 version is not bad at all (and I say that reluctantly, not being a big MS fan in general). Sometimes newer is better. Especially 10 years newer.