[zeveb]

> if you don't want to use the resources you paid for to make things faster or better, wouldn't that be an argument for using pine or mutt in a terminal window?

I rather think that pine, mutt or gnus in a terminal window (or even X) would be faster and better than a web client.

I read my mail in emacs using notmuch these days, and the full text search engine is a couple orders of magnitude faster than Google's Inbox; the complex content rendering is faster than Firefox or Chrome; everything is better and nothing is worse.