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The reason google search works so well is that it give people what they want. Why cant they do the same with email? Do they have a We can do no wrong attitude?

If they did a simple survey, they would find enough people want this feature in addition to a sort by date, time or sender. Geez, yahoo has that. So does it make any sense that yahoo mail is so much more popular?

Wake up please.

I just deleted an important thread by mistake due to the threading.

I am reminded of the CorelDraw clipart manual.

One year there must have been an ideologue of some sort in charge of the CorelDraw clipart manual. The previous year's manuals had pictures to represent the topics of different sections of the clipart, along with words for the topics in English, French, German and a few other languages. On the year of the pigheaded designer, the text was removed, leaving only pictures to find the topics with, to make it more politically correct by not picking 5 or 6 out of all the languages in the world to include and thereby excluding all the rest. This of course made it much harder to find topics.

The next version's manual reverted to the old, far superior topic headings with both pictures and words in multiple languages. The pigheaded decision was overturned in favor of giving users what they want and need.

I suspect that in order for Google to overturn it's pigheaded "threaded only" decision will require the person responsible for the error to quit, get fired, die, or otherwise leave their job and get replaced by someone who wants to give users what they report they want and need.

The Google Droids just don't get it. The web is FULL of people trying to turn this "feature" off, and they're still mumbling, "...but it's such a NICE feature...". <p/> Why can't they just listen to the users for a change? We DON'T like it, and we DON'T like being told to "get used to it". <p/> I have a gmail account that I have not used online from a week after the account was enabled. I'm never going to access it online again, because the conversational view has NOTHING to do with the way I organise my work or my life. If the intention is to drive people away from the web service, then WELL DONE! – nello, on June 25, 2008 02:28

Like so many I also feel that the compulsory conversation threading is more of a headache than a blessing. Perhaps if it could optionally be used on a per-subject basis or something along those lines it might be helpful on occasion. The only other option from the GMail side of things is to use the GMail filtering or "tagging" feature. However this still needs much development as it is largely unsatisfactory in it's functionality. The best option that I have found at this point is to use a third-party email program such as Outlook or Thunderbird. I had abandoned Thunderbird awhile back, but recently revisited Thunderbird when I was looking at paying another hundred-something-dollars for outlook when I bought a new computer. Thunderbird has come a long way in it's functionality and at this point I don't think I will have to look at a different email program ever again. Anywho ... back to the subject at hand. Utilizing a third-party email program to access GMail gives you maximum control over your email and bypasses the compulsory GMail conversation threading.

Sometimes, I just need to exchange a piece of information with a colleague for a later date/time.

Perhaps I'm just not with it...
I don't need every single message to become an episode in a soap opera.

Perhaps they should rename it D-mail for "Drama"

Yes, I have had it with google threading. It makes you miss emails. Reply to the wrong people. I have waited paitently for google to make it an option (2 years!). It is obvious that they think it is a plus. Most people don't know how to complain about it!

I get complaints everyday, and there is always astonishment when I have to say there is no-way to disable the feature.

Onward to test Yahoo.
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Hi Cupcake, yeah, its awful, so change to Yahoo Mail, I did and get my gmail forwarded there. It has folders, filters etc... Ive changed to Yahoo Mail pro, only $20 a year and worth it...

This converstation threading is absolutely diabolical. I live in constant fear of replying to the wrong people, missing a response to an email (as it lumps 200 responses from 1 group email into the same thread), missing a hardware failure notification etc.
I find it totally unmanageable, even after 6 months of persevering with it. The old standard interface is 1 million times better for me.

If you want speed and searchability then Gmail is far superior. The fast, comprehensive search mostly makes folders/labels unnecessary for my fast-paced life. I know many people like the Outlook foldered approach, which Yahoo Mail emulates well, but I do love my Gmail.

I used to have Yahoo, I switched to Gmail because first, my PAID yahoo account was hijacked and I tried to reclaim stating to yahoo I could confirm the credit card name and address and everything but the secret question. Yet they refused to even close the account so because of this I have incurred fraudulent charges to things that were linked to that account and my name has be defamed online in many places. – Will Reynolds Young, on May 07, 2008 18:22

I used to have Yahoo, I switched to Gmail because first, my PAID yahoo account was hijacked and I tried to reclaim stating to yahoo I could confirm the credit card name and address and everything but the secret question. Yet they refused to even close the account so because of this I have incurred fraudulent charges to things that were linked to that account and my name has be defamed online in many places. – Will Reynolds Young, on May 07, 2008 18:22