Gmail is quite something

[Karl F. Larsen]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> And for some
>> reason email from my Thunderbird through Gmail to the Ubuntu list does
>> not make it back to even Gmail list. That has to be a botch in my
>> registration on the list.
>>     
>
> It's not a botch in your registration -- it's a quirk about the way
> Gmail works -- when you make a posting to the list it DOES appear in
> the ubuntu folder in the web interface, but it will NOT appear in the
> IMAP ubuntu directory.  If you look at your sent messages, it will be
> there, and if you go to the web interface, it will be there... just
> not in the filtered directory containing the rest of the messages from
> the list.
>
> Personally I think it's a subtle way to keep folks using the web
> interface -- after all, if you use IMAP they have many fewer
> opportunities to pop advertisements in front of your eyeballs.
>
>   
    True. But Gmail has been good about not showing too many ads. After 
all it is free and the only way to make money is to advertise.


Karl