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One gripe I have had for years is the inability in Google mail to forward more than one message at a time. I am not sure why it hasn't been implemented after all these years; scared of extra traffic, spam? Anyhows, this rant brings me to some new functionality Tasks. Now I could rant on about this a bit because IMHO it sucks ass right now, but hey, a move in the right direction. If it works well in six months I'd be happy.

But I'd be mucho mucho happier with the ability to forward multiple mails.

P.s. Anyone else notice the ultra crap quality of attached images when you click 'view' instead of 'download' lately?

P.s.s. This all doesn't negate the fact that Google Mail, overall, is awesome.

A week ago a development database server lost power, which is usually no big deal only that I have some reporting scripts that run every 5 minutes for each database. When these databases became unavailable they (the scripts) like to send me a quick mail telling me what went wrong. The network switch also was out of action so there was no route to the outside world from this small development network. The server lost power for three days and a massive amount of mail built up in the mail queue. When power was restored the SPAM started pouring in.

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