The more I am using them the more I dislike labels. I would prefer to have a tidy inbox and several email folders in my gmail. I have been moving toward using my Gmail as my primary e-mail address and having a copy of selected (not all, read: important to me) emails go to the account that I access most often. Gmail does a great job of filtering spam. I would like to have a near empty inbox and a separate folder for things like forum notifications, google alerts, individual contacts I expect to receive email from sometimes (Dan, Eric, etc). Maybe it is because I don't like change and trying to turn my Gmail account into the old Outlook Express filters plus folders config I would have been using 10+ years ago. I'm trying to move away from PINE as my primary e-mail reader.
-Raymond