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The most annoying Gmail feature

The conversations!

I don't think many of you would have seen this as a disturbing feature. Recently I had few conversations that run into a long thread. When I tried to do few things, I found that I had no way of doing anything. The conversation view doesn't give us any control. For my use cases, the traditional viewing works absolutely fine. But I have no way of doing it in Gmail.

There is an option to suggest a feature for Gmail (Organization -> Conversation View changes). I wonder how many would suggest a change as this feature is not going to annoy the majority.

Here are the two main things I cannot do with this conversation view:
1) I wanted to mark few emails unread, so that I can reply later.
2) I wanted to move/label few mails so that they don't appear in my Inbox.


http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/why_cant_i_turn_off_conversation_threading_in_gmail_its_fatal_for_my_business

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=144645c24ddb362b&hl=en

And another worst thing, shortcut-key to send an email (TAB-ENTER)
Kovil Pillai P.
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DreamingAway said…
And got it!
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/turn-off-gmails-conversation-view.html
October 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM
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