Okay, this is a nerdy one. In moving over from my old gmail address to my genius new one, I've discovered some issues I wish to take with his omniscient, omnipotent Googleness.

I love, love, love filters and labels, but:

- WHY, oh WHY can we not set up a filter to operate on a group of contracts, rather than having to enter in all contacts individually? To clarify, if I wanted to put all mail to and from my favorite people under the label "rabu-rabu" (purely hypothetical!), I have to manually enter all their addresses into the form -- i.e, filter by To: "(address1) or (address2) or (address3) or (address4)"...ad nauseam. Luckily, I only have six people I care to stick under that label for now, but I'm sure I'll amass more with my immeasurable, irresistible charm. Anyway, hopefully Google will get on the ball with that before then. (They've gotta be working on it, right? I've seen other people gripe about it on the net and it would NOT be that hard to program in -- a lot of users have created their own javascript proggies to handle mass-address-addition themselves.)

- WHY can we not sort mail within a label (or all mail for that matter?) by other categories besides date? I want to be able to sort by the from field or size. Maybe they're pushing you to use the search function instead, but I like seeing the visual alignment from sorting. Maybe they're discouraging deleting those big mails, but. some of us are neurotic enough that using a whole 3% of our 3GB kind of freaks us out. (Purge! Must purge myself of old mails! Must purge myself of the devil!)

(Also, while I'm bitching and moaning, can they please improve the actual Google Talk chat client to have tabbed chats, always away, and various things any other chat client has long-featured? I guess they have more important things on their plate right now, since everyone sticks to the in-gmail version, but it could be so. much. more!)

(Also: why the fuck can't livejournal let non-LJ users comment with their name? Gah.)

Anyway, I still love gmail, but these seem like really easy / really convenient things to have so...c'mon Google! The power is yours!