I volunteer extensively for a Cairn Terrier rescue group. We are the largest single breed dog rescue in North America rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing almost 400 Cairn Terriers each year. Part of this work entails a VERY busy list-serve with often 4,000-6,000 messages monthly. Many of these messages contain attachments and pictures. Without Gmail, managing the amount of mail generated by this group would be just about impossible... By using Gmail with its threading and huge storage, not only can we now manage to more quickly read the posts (and easily delete whole threads) but we can archive them and then find what we want in a flash with the search feature.
One of my volunteer jobs is to create our yearly calendar which has over 500 pictures in it and takes enormous planning. With Gmail, I opened a separate account just for pictures that come as attachments in the above mentioned listserve. I can now just forward the messages and later, when I need a picture, using the search feature, I can easily find all the ones I need so I can choose the best picture of any particular dog to use in the calendar. I often have over a dozen to chose from. With the storage Gmail gives me, I never worry about running out of space and I do not have to be at my home computer when I'm working on the calendar. I can just search from any computer, find what I want and then either star it or label it and when I get home to my calendar making program, I have some work already done. It has made my life so much easier.
Kkrpsyd, Psychologist
New York
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