Thursday, July 29, 2010

Two GMail feature request. Yeah sure.

Lately I am a bit displeased with Google way of getting feedback from Gmail users.

This is maybe for another day. This is one of the reasons I opened this blog, feeling that there is no good place for Gmail users' feedback.

so - let's keep it short, it should be a 5 minutes edit post,

these are two features i will be happy to see in Gmail.

1) Ad-Hok mail-thread mailing list.
a mailing list that you can create.
 - all the addressee can reply to it - including the BCC
 - all the addresse will get the response including the BCC ones.
- the AdHok mailing list is not accessible to senders from outside,
- and cannot be used on other mail threads

What is it good for - mostly to allow a flexible mailing list, free of CC/BCC inconveniences.
in regular mailing list you have problem excluding parts of the list.
with normal addressees  - no pun intended - the addresses are seen.
with BCC - they will not be included in others' replies, and have to be exposed if they want to reply.
Ad Hok thread based mailing list is cool elegant way to overcome the caveats above.
there are quite a few corners to polish here, but this is even more fun.

2) sort addressees list Alphabetically
this is a small request, can be implemented as a labin a day.
i sent a mail out recently with about 15 or so addressees - most of then know each other.
BCC was not a respectable option here, the order of addressees appearance
could be an issue. Each one of Charlize Angelina & Brigitte may want to see her name appear
before the others. The only way to make it right, so they won't complain is to sort it Alphabetically
I want Gmail to sort it for me.
Thanks.
I think it can make a small cute Lab feature.

That's all for today.

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