Chuck (who runs the best boatbuilding supplies website in the world) informed me in a comment to the last post that you must empty the trash if you want to release the space you thought you were freeing up, otherwise it just festers there for 30 days and your email keeps on bouncing. WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT IN THE SO-CALLED HELP PAGES? That is a RHETORICAL QUESTION, I know it must be in there somewhere it is just that I didn't see it and it isn't obvious and it shouldn't be how the system works.
ALSO I forgot to remove the filters you have to put in (part of the Byzantine system of eliminating some mail), so Gmail continued to delete all incoming messages anyway. Why is releasing space to keep you in the free zone such a nit-picking, detail-intensive, counter-intuitive, ball-breaking PAIN? Don't answer, that's rhetorical too.
The whole experience has been so infuriating I have gone back to BT Yahoo!, which says everything really.
actually, Yahoo mail seems to be not too bad. Maybe Gmail will get better; maybe not. (By the way your characterization of me as one who "runs the best boatbuilding supplies website in the world" is appreciated, but earned me a bit of scorn from Sandra who thinks my head might be a little too large for my own good already.
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