I kind of agree with you but only because Segosa’s blog (he’d argue it isn’t a blog :p) is only for rants. I didn’t really think of it until now but chances are everyone is going to disagree with at least one thing on his site. In fact, I only agree with one article/entry/whatever you call it on his site.

Every once in a while it is a bit of a relief to get in an argument with someone… not because of the actual argument but because of the ability to feel in a better mood once the argument is over (better meaning better than you felt during the argument :D)

He posted a response to this, and I really could not be bothered continuing this little argument. He will get what is coming to him.

You also didn’t even do a good job of criticising his response.

Firstly, you made an irrelevant criticism of his site (the maddox thing). You’ve now brought it down to the level of Segosa’s bickering comments about grammar. The rapport between you two now becomes a childish fight over who’s right and who’s wrong.

You didn’t handle the beta debate that well either. Your original comment was fine, and poorly responded to by Segosa. Of course it’s possible that Google are in the process of optimising code, making the spam filter more intelligent, fixing obscure bugs, fixing compatibility issues not applicable to you or other things you can’t see, as well as conducting GUI reviews and reviewing their business strategy to see if it is appropriate to bring Gmail out of the beta stage.

So I’m sorry to see that you’ve continued it into a two-way catfight, but so be it. Just don’t bore me with any more of it.

I have to admit your defence of the spelling/grammar attacks was admirable You ended up making 2 mistakes in that sentence. I don’t want to be picky, because my point is that picking them out is lame, but I think we all knew that it was lame so there wasn’t much need to retort. I will point out to you again, Segosa, that your latest post contains 3 of its own grammatical mistakes. Let’s not go picking holes in things that we can’t do ourselves.

Segosa is right… it should be as instead of has but who gives a damn? Is this an English test? Not me. I understood what Chris meant. But that’s besides the fact because if you’re going to make an argument I wouldn’t use typos as a supporting argument.

“I guess it’s just my imagination that Yahoo! has a search feature too.” Did Chris say that the search feature is one of the unique features? No… but even if he did it would be unique because it has unique features of its own.

As for the complaint that Gmail has been in beta testing for a while now without too many noticable changes… beta testing is usually to fix the bugs and doesn’t require features to be added or the layout to change.

I could probably keep going but quite frankly I don’t feel like taking the time to

You’ll notice that segosa has posted a followup to this post. I have to say that this has turned it into a blog war, rather than a post followed by a reaction to it. The arguments in the “come-back” aren’t even that solid. Please don’t do the same in response Chris. It would be such a waste.