On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, grarpamp <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.

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"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.