What *really* annoys me is how Gmail handles contacts, and groups in particular.
1. Twice I’ve had a group where I couldn’t remove a contact. I had to delete the group and recreate it without the contact in question.
2. I’ve had a group where one contact expanded to a name with no email address (”Foo Bar” <>)
3. Possibly related, I found that the same person had two entries, once email address being foo.bar@quux, the other being Foo.Bar@quux. I deleted the second one, edited the first one and got an error about no two contacts having the same email address foo.bar@quux.
4. This didn’t solve the empty email address problem. I then removed said person from the group, added it again picking the home address, tried composing a new mail to the group and found that this person finally had an email address – but not the private address I had chosen when I added the person to the group.
5. There is no simple way to merge contacts.
6. There is no simple way to keep Gmail contacts in sync with a remote system such as my Mac OS 10.4 Address Book (apparently the next release comes with an option to keep the two in sync, and apparently the ABGmerge app is no longer supported; reading the text file that comes with it I wasn’t sure I really wanted to try it).
7. On the iPhone I get an interface that does not allow me to edit groups.
Anyway. Contacts. It’s a mess.
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