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Clipped Messages in Gmail--- maybe it’s Outlook 2010 B2

michaelruminer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:32:05 GMT

As it turns out my clipped messages in Gmail that I have complained about in a prior post may actually be related to a defect that was in Outlook 2007 Beta releases. You can find some information at the Microsoft Outlook Product Team blog. This also explains why I was only seeing the clipping of my messages on email coming from a specific email distribution list. This list happens to be a group of Microsoft product team members, champs, rangers, MVPS etc. Effectively a high concentration of likely early adopters for Office 2010 Beta products.

I have not confirmed this is the root cause but it seems likely enough that it’s not worth further investigation. I do believe this issue is cleared in the RC version.

This doesn’t relieve Gmail of what I still see as major problems in their method of handling of clipped messages but it does give me a better explanation than I had of why Gmail was clipping the messages. I still disagree with their implementation as it renders clipped messages as unusable/unreadable on their very own software for Gmail access on Blackberry phones if not other devices as well.

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Clipped Messages In Gmail Is Killing Me

michaelruminer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:29:49 GMT

I have a few posts to make tonight and all the others will be more interesting and related to Visual Studio/TFS 2010 most likely but for now a rant on Gmail.

I like Gmail but lately I have suddenly started getting a large number of “clipped messages”. If you are not familiar with a clipped message the short story is that an email chain has become too long and to save space the message has been clipped down. You would expect this on an email discussion group thread where people are responding back to the list as a whole and keep the original message in the reply after a few or few hundred people doing so the email message could get very large. This is what a clipped message looks like:

I have been getting these messages clipped where it’s the first response to the original email. Both emails where short. I have blurred the original email in the following picture but you can see despite the blur the number of words and general length of the email (about 20 words).

The response by someone else was clipped as shown in the first image. The following blurred text is what that response contained- a sentence, a URL and a signature block plus the original 20 word message.

I really don’t believe a response to a 20 word email with an 11 word and 1 URL email plus a signature block rises to the threshold of needing clipped.

This really bothers me for a few reasons.

My understanding is that if the message is clipped the contents that were clipped is not searchable when doing a search within the mailbox. I have not confirmed this yet.
I use Google’s own Gmail client on my Blackberry. Clipped message simply show as blank with no means to read them i.e. no statement of message clipped and a link.
I will confirm but believe I have also found this to be true if using the Blackberry browser and not using specific render settings for the Gmail pages. I’ll confirm.
I have no control over how the clipping functions and it seems to function not very well.

Someone at Google needs to spend their 20% time and build out a lab item that suggests clipping an email versus doing it automatically and incorrectly as is increasingly the case in too many of the emails I have seen and people using this lab item should stop having their emails rendered bodiless by Google.

Someone else at Google needs to fix their own mobile client software to actually work with the messages after Google has gutted them and at least show the link so that I can read the messages I receive from somewhere other than my non-mobile browser. This one is the one that makes me really frustrated as I rely on my mobile access to Gmail extensively and I am, as of late, being far to often rendered neutered.

Ughhhh….

It's about time... Search for Google Reader

willeke — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:20:00 GMT

I've been missing this for a long time, and then I see this post come through my reader:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thewebpreneur/~3/153001734/

Then, I refresh, and woot! I've got search!

It's nice, too. All posts, only starred, only shared, by folder, or even by individual subscription (although, that last one makes for a LONG dropdown).

Thank, Google!

[EDIT]

Oddly, it looks like there's a bug in the search... or maybe just a usability issue... what SHOULD happen if you search for the empty string (i.e. just click the button)?

Should it be a red bar with "Oops...an error occurred. Please try again in a few seconds."?

How about a screen that has a title of

"Search for"

and contents of

"Search for " has no items.

???

1-800-GOOG411

willeke — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:46:00 GMT

Amazing! Handled a local call about BW3's easily, by voice, and came back with "Did you mean Buffulo Wild Wings..." AND nailed it to the closest one to my current location.

THEN, they text messaged me the data for free.

Hello Google!

(from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/108920255/003532.php among others)