Test - PLEASE do NOT reply

[Darrin Chandler]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> NTL, since my originating mails do not show up UNTIL there has been a reply
> by someone on the list, gmail must be hiding it until that event happens and
> if it never does, my originating seems never to have gone yo the list though
> the list echoed it out to participants (including me I presume).  To me this
> smacks of Micro$ Bill's attitude that he should be the decider of what
> behaviours should be silently imposed on the world.  I used to have high
> hopes for Google avoiding that kind of evilness and they are fading.

Though you and I (and probably many, many others) see this behavior as
undesirable, I don't think it qualifies as evil. Stupid or vain might be
better choices. It's similar to Firefox defaulting to save downloads to
the desktop (because that's how Ben Goodger (sp?) does things). I
*never* want things saved to my desktop. Ever. But Firefox at least has
an option to change the behavior to be more sane.  I'm not sure, but
maybe gmail has a setting that can be tweaked so that it acts more
rationally, and not just the way that one guy on the gmail team likes to
do things.

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