I put text in a box. I click a button. That text is transported to
   people across the globe. Fucking people need to get over some UI shit.

   On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   >> i don't quite get why everyone purportedly loves webmail clients so
   much?
   >
   > Ease of access as opposed to setting up a client like
   > Thunderbird/Outlook/mutt etc.

     I can tell you gmail's interface completely sucks now.
     Every change they make is a whole new world of ruin.
     Webmail dates back to providers not offering imap/submission,
     no small part because it's harder to force feed ads down those
     interface channels than with captive eyeballs in webmail. Many
     other reasons but most of them are the provider choosing/forcing
     webmail, not the user. Never forget the AOL captive UI.

   --
   "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
   into the
   machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able
   rightly
   to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a
   question."
   -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher,
   inventor
   and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable
   computer.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com