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Google ’s Gmail service is wildly popular and quite good.  And while this should not be considered a review of the service, as much as a commentary about one aspect of it, I will point out a couple of my observations. It’s fast.  At least the bulk of the time, in about the same time that a normal search with Google returns results, clicking a message opens not only the message but all related messages as well.  This includes messages that were sent in response to a previous message.  To be sure, Mozilla ’s Thunderbird and Apple ’s Mail have been using message threading for years, but I never used a mailer that “grafts” sent messages into the threads as well.  It’s a sort of neat feature.  I’m not sure if I prefer to have it, but some friends have told me they love it. There are no folders!  Google has taken the concept of a folder and converted it to one of labels.  You don’t move a message to a folder, you apply a label to it.  The benefit is that a message can be associated wi