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Unfortunately, technolust@gmail.com was already taken. Everyone email him and tell him he's a phoney and to hand over his password. ;-)

So I used my real name, which mean I won't be posting it here. Anyone who wants that address, it is my real name like this first.last@gmail.com. Remember my last name has the funky spelling, if you know my name but can't remember that funky spelling email my posted address and I'll let you know. Thanks, FORTKNOX!!! (And turg for the offer, everyone go beg him for that invite. ;-) )

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  • Good.... for you... I guess... Is jawtheshark@gmail.com free? Not that I need it, my mailbox is unlimited (uhm, to the extent of harddisk-space free) Hmmm... perhaps I'd better put some limit on it, not that someone gets the idea of sending me a Linux ISO by email ;-)
    • Did nobody actually read TL's whole JE? IM me if you still need an invite. I might have one or two (or five) gmail accounts from which I can send invites.
      • ya i guess you might as well invite me, but i promise to use it for spam registration at websites so i can karmawhore on slashdot...
      • I did read that. I'm just not into begging. I do not really have a use for that full gig. ("du -sh ~/mail" says that 349M used and that is years of stored email) The only reason why it would be interesting to me is that sooner or later I'd get invites myself. I know a few people that really would be interested in a gmail account.
        • Hehe... I can see Jorg on gmailswap now. "Will trade invitations for head. (Female applicants only please.)"

          Well, maybe not anymore, what with SmilingGirl around. He seems pretty... satisfied... in that area. ;-)

          • I was more thinking of coworkers, just because they seemed interested in it. Uhm, by "it" I mean, of course, "having gmail" and not "giving head". *grin*

            He seems pretty... satisfied... in that area.

            Well, won't deny it, but even things like that can be exaggerated. I can do without for a while now ;-)

        • Well, you don't actually have to beg.
          • Well, my dear turg, I will state it this way: If you happen to have an invite lying around and nobody else begged you for it, I'd be happy to get an invite to gmail. :-)
  • Gmail's current policy of invitation-based registration is as good as free registration. From my observation, they give all their accounts 3 free invitations every 2-3 days or so. In the past week, I was invited, and got to invite 3 people who all now have 3 invitations each as well (I got 3 more, too!). The accounts are spreading uncontrollably (faster than before, I take it), so they're really racing to announce the final version.

    Enjoy. =)
    • but it creates an artificial demand that raises buzz about it - without Google really doing anything.
      • Yep.

        IMO, Gmail is going to revolutionize the Internet. Google has this thing about supplying some basic Web application that hundreds of other companies supply, doing it twenty times better, and subsequently dominating the field.

        We'll see.
    • And one could conceiveably register daisy-chain the accounts:
      -register an account
      -get three invites
      -send two invites to friends
      -register yourself another account with the third invite
      -get three invites on the new account
      -repeat
  • In a few days when you have an invite, let me know, ok?
  • They'll let anyone in nowadays. There goes the neighborhood! :)
  • If you have enough invites to go around I'd certainly appreciate one.
    • When you have invites, obviously, I know you don't get them as soon as you sign up. Need to think complete thoughts before posting... A 80+ degree office will do that to you though. They were working on the air right, but it only runs for about 30 seconds every 15 minutes. When its 90+ outside that isn't enough to really make a difference.
  • I'd ask you for an invitation, but I see that several others have already asked. So, I'll just sit here batting my eyes at you and wait for you to offer. ;-)

    Seriously though, if you have one to spare, can you send me one?

  • Why, exactly, do I need a GMail account?

    I mean, sure, a gigabyte of storage. Da hell I'm gonna use that for? I don't get emailed any porn, so...??

    Personally I think web interface for email is just wrong as well. So what exactly is it (other than geek factor of being first--see my 6 digit ICQ number :-) that makes GMail compelling to you? And that goes not just to TL, but to all y'all who have jumped on the bandwagon.

    • It's WAY better at organizing email than anything else. My two biggest problems with email are the >>>>>>> things everywhere and figuring out which "folder" to put it in when it pertains to several things. Sure you can COPY it to several folders, but then you have multiple copies running around. GMail solves the >>>> problem by organizing emails into conversations, like outlook does. Also, it lets you "label" emails and you can apply as many labels as you want. If you a
      • GMail solves the >>>> problem by organizing emails into conversations, like outlook does.

        Hm. Not sure what this means. Sounds like "threading" which is available in any modern email cient (eudora maybe not, but definitely evolution and mozilla/thunderbird). So what is this "archive"? If I have a gigabyte inbox, what's to archive? :-)

        • Well, I've been emailing Sam, and it has the first line of our email conversations stacked on top of each other, so it's like this:
          • First Email - blurb - date/time
          • Second Email - blurb - date/time
          • Third Email - blurb - date/time
          • Four Email - date/time
          • Full texts of fourth (newest) email

          Archive basically takes a conversation out of the inbox. Your inbox will have a list of the name of the conversation and the number of emails contained in said conversation in parenthsis.

  • have some spare invites. I'd like to get one too.
  • ... this morning, when Yahoo! Mail increased their storage limits from 6 megabytes (4 megabytes for you relative newcomers) to 100 megabytes.

    Happy, happy.

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