Gmail graduates 3 Labs features
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I hate Gmail, at first I was neutral on it, then I went to work for Google and got to see it used "in production" as it were and found how it could be really useful, then stuff I liked (layout, features) got changed and/or deleted and I now I don't like it.
Now there is nothing wrong per se with Gmail, its doing its thing and I'm doing mine, but I cannot step off the train. I can't just not buy the upgrade and stay with the feature set I like, the train keeps moving, I get sucked along with it. We pay for Gmail for our company, as a paying customer the majority of our users wanted to stay with the old format, we could not. Not an option. I supposed that it true of IT shops that are built on top of Notes or Exchange as well, you get what you get.
I stopped using Gmail labs features when I realized that if they don't "graduate" they vanish. And if you've grown to depend on them, you're screwed.
Sigh.
Although they missed a few potential features (see Rapportive and friends).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838810
Spoiler: some people strongly dislike it.
This isn't a feature. It's a bug.
Some stupid people would cause chaos if they enabled it, of course, but generally those are exactly the same people that would never even realize it was possible do so.
For the rest of us who have half a clue, it's a nice feature. Reply-to-all is the right thing something like 70-80% of the time, so it's useful to make it easier.
You're courting disaster anyways by replying off a mass email chain to one person on it.
I used to have an Outlook extension that disabled Reply-All on outgoing mail. I used the heck outta that thing! Nothing bugged me more than someone sending an e-mail broadcast to the division, which would be followed in my inbox by a dozen or more Out-of-office autoresponders.