Anybody have spare GMAIL invite? (MERGED) (1 Viewer)

[Paul_Fisher]

I would like one too if anyone has any. [email protected]

Thanks!

 

[Philip_G]

nope, nothing.

www.notadotnet.net/philip/gmail.jpg

 

[Holadem]

I am asking as well Brandon. No one seems to care however.

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[Philip_G]

gmail is an email service by google, similar to yahoo but allowing for 1 gigabyte of storage for each account.

 

[Kevin Alexander]

oh please, please,...me, too. [email protected]

 

[Moe Maishlish]

I would wholeheartedly appreciate it if someone could send me an invite as well. I've been clamoring to get a GMAIL account for the past few weeks, so any help would be great!

If possible, please send it to [email protected] (my 95% full hotmail account... )

Thanks!

Moe.

 

[Malcolm R]

greg*go provided a link to the information several posts above your first inquiry.

I've read the info and I guess I don't understand why this is such an in-demand thing.

 

[Ricardo C]

GMail's mail sorting features are terrific, but the privacy issues keep me away. GMail's encouragements NOT TO DELETE your mail once you tell it to, do little to calm my more paranoid thoughts about the service. Add in the fact that the Google cookie uses a unique identifying number for both your Google searches and your GMail usage, and it's a little too scary for me.

I have an account that's more or less dormant right now, but I do have a spare invite if anyone wants to take his/her chances.

 

[Ricardo C]

Invite's been sent to Nick.

 

[NickSo]

Thanks Ricardo!

 

[Greg*go]

Holadem,
Sorry, you must've clicked on the post before I posted the about Gmail link.

Malcolm R,
I wanted one for 2 reasons. The layout of it looked nice, but more importantly, I was able to get the email name I wanted. There are only a few thousand people with it right now, so names are still available without having to worry about putting numbers to the ends of them. And I should also mention, once I got one, it turns out I really liked the way they manage the accounts. I think it'll do very well. And the 3rd reason everyone wants one is because it's invite only right now. It's a rather clever way to get the buzz going about it.


Really? I was under the impression you can either "archive" the letters or move them to the trash like the other services. If you archive it, obviously you don't delete it. But whenever I've told it to trash a message, it does so. Of course you have to delete it from the trash folder afterwards, but I thought that was also normal behavior.


Philip G,
Yup, your story checks out. This is what my screen looked like.
http://img6.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img6&image=gmail2.jpg

 

[Ricardo C]

You can delete it, definitely. But then you get a message saying "No mail in the trash. Who needs to delete when you have 1GB of space?!" The Help files are also peppered with comments about how you'll never need to delete another message, "archive, don't delete", etc. etc.

I know Google has a great reputation as probably the most benevolent corporation out there, but I'm holding out for some changes in their privacy policy before I use my account more regularly.

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

I have no problems with their privacy policies since realistically, Yahoo and MSN are already looking at our emails and just not telling us. Let alone they then stuff banner ads on all sides of our email, including a tag to the end of every email. So yeah, Gmail is the shiit right now.

Even if google only offered 1mb I would still use it because threaded email is the coolest email feature I've ever seen and it amazes me that no major email service has thought of it yet.

So far after about two hundred emails and a month and a half of use, I've only had 2 emails that produced ads on the side, and one was actually useful.

Anyway, if anyone is so worried about their email being scanned, perhaps you shouldn't be using email in the first place. Just my opinion.

 

[Ricardo C]

The key issue is that Google's cookie has a unique ID number, which can be used to create a correlation between your Google searches and your GMail usage. For people with static IP addresses, Google's cookie can be a little too invasive.

It's not that Google couldn't establish such correlations by using their server logs, if they were so inclined, but their cookie makes it just too easy. I really don't need them keeping track of every time I've searched for porn, or every time I've read articles on terrorism, or anything someone somewhere might find "interesting" to know about, AND being able to link it to my GMail addy.

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

Okay, that makes sense. Didn't realize that the two were linked like that.

 

[Rob Speicher]

If you requested an invite and got one, please edit your post to reflect that. I'll invite more if/when I get more invites.

 

[JasonDNJ]

If anyone has a gmail invite they can spare, I can sure use another web email account. My current hotmail account is almost filled and that's with saved emails from the past 2 years.

Thanks,
Jason
[email protected]

 

[Holadem]

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Edited by Holadem - 8/13/2009 at 05:34 pm GMT

 

[JimmyM]

I too would like one, so that I can stop using AOL's stupid email system that just begs to be spammed.

Thanks!

Edit: got one. Thanks!!

 

[Mark Paquette]

Anyone with a spare invite? Please send it to [email protected] so I can stop using this spam filled email account. Thanks!