moses choi

Now, I’m a really big fan of Gmail, Google’s email service. The user interface is quick and very sleek and the storage is awesome. For the longest time, webmail service reminded me of an oligopoly, where all the major players (Hotmail, Yahoo) agreed to compete in very limited areas while maintaining the status quo. The big players were not willing to push the limits in storage capabilities, modernizing the GUI at an adequate rate, and accessibility.

Enter Google, the seemingly friendly giant. Although they project their brand as a friendly company with their mantra, “Don’t be Evil”, I have doubts. Anyway, Gmail came in put the entire webmail industry on its ear with virtually unlimited storage, small text-based ads, quick ajax-based GUI, and a totally new way to organize email: labels.

The only problem I’ve experienced with Gmail is that it seems like there’s a limit on the number emails that can categorized under one label. Perhaps there’s something wrong with my account, but as of a few months ago, whenever I’ve tried to label one of my emails as “Personal”, Gmail automatically puts it under a new label it creates for me called “Personal2″. And when I try to delete this “Personal2″ label and re-categorize the emails within this label in the “Personal” label, Gmail puts these messages right back into an automatically created “Personal2″ label. I know the last few sentences sound a tad complicated, but that’s what is happening.

Has anyone heard of this or has anyone experienced this also? I think it just doesn’t make sense to place a limit on the number of emails you can place under a particular label. I’ve been trying to figure this out for awhile now and have just recently given up. I now just label my personal emails as “Personal2″.