I logged into my Gmail account for the first time about 4+ years ago. Truth be said, I’m a satisfied customer. After a busy week I opened my mailbox. I was in fact waiting for some important mails. Not to my surprise I found 200+ mails in my Spam box. After 4+ years the number of mails from those ‘kind people’ who wanted to make me rich quickly was only about 200+. It is respectable number because I have registered in so many forums and other website (I know that Google won’t say that because it eats up lot of their resources). And the best part, 98% (rough figureJ) goes to spam box. I looked at my inbox there was about 300+ unread messages. Trust me; I’m not a person who receives hundreds of email a day. I remember the last time I opened my mailbox the number of unread messages were around 275. Those 275 are among those which I will never read and they are not sent by any ‘get rich quickly’ spammers. They are in fact send by my friends. Most of them forwarded messages. Their intensions are good, they want to share some ‘fun stuffs’ they got. And honestly, at times (read it as very rarely), I enjoy reading them. The rest stays as unread messages. Once in a while I made time to delete all those then I came up with an idea. I made all the Fwd: mails to skip the inbox by creating a label. It worked to an extend and that’s why those number is only 300. But then there was another problem. I missed some of the very important Fwd: mails. So even though I made it skip the inbox I still end up checking the forwarded messages.
Why don’t these service providers can come up with a method of setting a priority to the mails like in the installed mail clients? So that all these funny forwarded messages can be set a lower priority and I can have a cleaner inbox and never need to search for a mail from my girl friend (well when I have one ;))
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