Re: Why is it that 1962-1970 seems like ages when 2000-2008 seems like Five Bloody minutes

"Jeff" <yourimageunreels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
"Sean Carroll" <seanc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

E-mail was not meant to be read on the web. It was meant to be like
Usenet
messages in a newsreader. When I finally get back to having that kind of
e-mail, I will start using it much more often.

I'm puzzled cause I've never used a newsreader, nor the saw the reason
to. I post through google and can read my yahoo e-mail just fine.

To each their own, I suppose, but I just hate web-based mail and groups. I
like to have one window where I can look at all the message headers, and
another next door where I can instantly open the bodies just by highlighting
each message in the list. And then if I want to reply, I can just hit a
single button and a new window pops up for me to compose in, which simply
disappears when I hit Send, returning me instantly to the header and body
windows. And if I want to see if any new messages came up in the meantime, I
just hit 'New Messages' and they all immediately appear right there on the
same list, in the same window.

On the web, or at least Hotmail, every single thing you do -- looking at the
whole inbox list, reading an individual message, composing a reply,
confirming a send, going back to the inbox, marking something read, clearing
out old messages, checking for new ones, *everything* -- requires loading a
whole new web page with each action. Then, if you want to go back to a
previous view, you either have to use the back button, or navigate all the
way back through the various folders and such -- you can either see JUST
this screen, or JUST the other one ... and if you want to go back and forth
between two views, you have to alternately reload each page over and over
again, every time.

Either that, or you have to keep hitting 'open up in new window', cluttering
up your desktop with multiple browser pages and tabs. Actually, Hotmail
doesn't even let you do *that* when it comes to reading a particular
message -- there simply IS no option that allows you to keep the message
list AND an individual message open at the same time.

And if you have a lot of messages, you can only look at a fraction of the
headers at a time, because if it goes over like 25 messages or whatever, it
starts putting them on entirely different pages. If you have a lot of junk
mail to get rid of, you have to gradually clear it out a little bit at a
time, clearing one page, then clearing the next, and the next ... You don't
just have a single damn list of headers, that you can simply scroll down as
far as you need to, and mark/delete/whatever as many of them as you like all
at once.

And as for Google Groups, it's absolutely maddening to try to read Usenet
without being able to sort the headers the way you want -- everything is
threaded, whether you want it that way or not. And yet, each new message in
a thread also appears as a new header, despite the fact that they all link
to the same damn thread page. And again, you have to open every single
message individually in a new window -- you can't just conveniently click
your way on down the list, looking down at all the message bodies so you can
quickly decide whether they look interesting enough to read or not. You have
to open EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE in a new page and ... gah. I think you get the
idea.

Maybe these are all just neurotic tics, unique to me. It's not as if I'm a
particularly mentally stable individual, after all.

Ok, I'll hold off on the music.

No no, no need for that. Go ahead and send. Just because I hate Hotmail
doesn't mean I'm incapable of checking it. I've actually been trying to keep
up on it better lately. I have to read all my other mail that way, so
there's no reason why one more message from you would make it any more or
less difficult. Go ahead and send, it's not a problem. The only reason I
brought all this up was because I was trying to make excuses for the fact
that I'm known to be lazy at checking my mail. I never intended to imply
that any of it was a reason for you or anyone else not to e-mail me. Just
trying to explain ahead of time in case I start slacking off again.

--
--Sean
http://spclsd223.livejournal.com

House: There is no medicine like happiness. Or rubber tubes shoved up your
urethra.

Wilson: You cathed yourself?

House: It wasn't so bad after the first, I don't know, nine, ten inches.


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