Just took a few minutes to clean out the 2,000 spam e-mails from my Gmail inbox. Lucky for me that anything over thirty days is automatically deleted, huh?
Google keeps adding features to Gmail, such as the one I noticed this morning where deleting became its own little button, rather than an item in a drop down menu. Sure would be nice if they'd make that a bit more obvious for the first few days, because for those of us who've used it since it was new, ingrained habits die hard. It's been frustrating to try to delete, then remember you have a button for it now. (Unlike Skillzy, however, I didn't really get too upset when the menu option changed from "move to trash" to "delete." I never really read it in the first place, and it was at least in the same menu position as before.)
ANYway, in a similar make-it-nicer vein, it would be nice if they'd come up with a way to dump ALL spam at once, rather than having to select and delete. I suppose if I had my spam box set up to display 2000 messages at once, it would be quicker, but as it is, it only shows 100 at a time. Meaning I had to delete 20 times. No big deal, but a single dump button sure would be nice.
OH! And look! Just in the time it took for me to gloat about deleting all that, ANOTHER one just showed up!
Give the spammers credit for persistence, I suppose.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 20, 2006 02:24 PMI do the same thing with G-mail... but like it anyway... wish they had a block button but they don't. I ask them about it and they told me something about filtering, so I don't like filtering, I like blocking. But at least we can delete them before reading them. Have a great weekend Mr. Terry and please stay awake in the church part.
Posted by: osray at January 20, 2006 04:33 PMYou have a good weekend, too, Osray--and I'll do my best to get as much churching as I can, but you know, there's that old saying about the spirit being willing, but the flesh is doggone sleepy.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 20, 2006 04:41 PMThe "Select: All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, Unstarred" right underneath the "Delete Forever" and "Not Spam" buttons doesn't show up for you????
You *click* on the "All", and then *click* the "Delete Forever" button...
From someone who's been using Gmail for near forever (or at least since Google started offering it).
Posted by: Byron Todd at January 20, 2006 07:34 PMOh wait. It seems I can't read or is it that I can read, I just can't comprehend.
I guess since I use gmail daily, and clean out the Spam area daily, I didn't realize that gmail only displays 100 emails at a time...
Apologies for misreading / miscomprehending from the one who's been using Gmail for near forever...
Posted by: Byron Todd at January 20, 2006 07:36 PMHeh--no problem, Byron. But yes, that is my routine, and it wouldn't be such a big deal if I'd just clean it every day. Still, a mass empty button would be awfully handy. I mean, my Yahoo box has one, so those Google whizkids oughta be able to figure it out.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 20, 2006 11:11 PM