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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 06:38
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Hey all,

I just received an invite for GMail today, but unfortunately I'm at work and they've blocked access to webmail :-P However, I can't wait to check it out tonight!

Anyone else lucky enough to beta test this beast? Any (intelligent) thoughtful insights? I hope I can get a good name when I signup.

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Zero Blitzt
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 06:42
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Meh, I sent them my email, I'm waiting for a response. And there was a big community thing going on at LUE (a board on GameFAQs) where people invited eachother to GMail. I still have yet to be invited.

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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 06:48
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You mean once you're invited you can invite someone else? Cool. I thought you had to be a google employee or something. My friend works for them.

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BatVink
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 14:36
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I was invited, but I never gave it a second thought, actually. I've already got remote access to my mail.

Then again...1 GB of storage would free up my domain allocation...might sign up now you've reminded me!

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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 21:38
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BatVink --- Hopefully your invite still works--- they only last for 7 days!

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Elleomea
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 22:08
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I basically just signed up for the elitist aspect . Don't have much need for the account, have recieved some nice offers of bribery for invites though .

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Zenincanin 14
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 22:45
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I want GMAIL.

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 22:49
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Damn GMail beta testers. I want 1GB!

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Zenincanin 14
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 23:47
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GIVE ME AN INVITE!

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BatVink
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 01:07
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Don't want to run it in but...I didn't even have to ask

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Mattman
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 01:24
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run it in or rub it in? lol

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Jeku
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 01:33
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Well apparently there's some crazy formula that Google uses to decide who gets to invite. Some people may never see the opportunity (I haven't so far), and others are able to invite 1 a day, and still others have unlimited invites.

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zircher
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As a side note, Yahoo mail is running scared. They've overhauled their user interface, gave everyone more space, more allowed attachments, and greater file sizes. Gotta love competition when it works for the advantage of the customer.
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The Lynx
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What is GMail?
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Elleomea
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 05:06 Edited at: 20th Jun 2004 05:06
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http://gmail.google.com

Seriously, the irony of giving someone the URL for a Google service is too much.

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Jeku
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 06:13
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Quote: "Gotta love competition when it works for the advantage of the customer."


I'm also amazed at how we are pretty much handed these things for free, because we're not customers in the traditional brick-n-mortar sense, i.e. going to 7-11 and buying a Slurpee. We're customers because we use their search engine and click their AdSense advertisements. Those of us who never click ads (myself included) reap the benefits.

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lagmaster
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 14:55
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i got a gmail invite, using it now. looks very good for what it offers.

when i get some invites, i'll give them out

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David T
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 15:13
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Pleeeeeeeeeeease

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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 17:47
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Well, you know I'm always here... I like cats... If you like cats holla and send me an invite

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Zenincanin 14
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 18:19
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I read somewhere they have lots of ads and you can't delete emails. They stay as Threads like in message boards.

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Elleomea
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Posted: 20th Jun 2004 18:54 Edited at: 20th Jun 2004 18:55
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There isn't a lot of ads, there's a few discrete google text ads (AdSense). You can delete e-mails, but it's not guaranteed that they'll be completely deleted immediately, since a copy may be stored on backup media until it is overwritten with a newer backup.
Messages are displayed in a threaded style.

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megamanx
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They have a few ads, true, but they are actually relevant. It's better than having an email account which gets flooded with porn crap and on the side are blinking ads which want you to buy a jeep liberty, for instance. At least the ads would be porn-related, this way if I'm actually interested in the porn message I've recieved, the ads will be interesting as well, plus they do not blink/flash/animate which is annoying. Personally, I love the AdSense ads. I've even requested that Opera developers leave the AdSense ad functionality in the browser for paid users because I love getting ads which are related to the documents that I'm reading, it's helped me a LOT. For example, a few weeks ago I was looking through some documents about fairies for research on a game I'm wanting to make and the ads gave me links to pages which were more relevant to what I was looking for than the page I was actually looking at. Nothing beats advertisments which aren't in your face saying..

"BUY ME. YOU PROBABLY DO NOT KNOW WHO I AM AND I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BUT I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MONEY AND THAT INTERESTS ME!"

Anyways, if anyone is feeling generous then please send me an invite (megamanxplosion@hotmail.com)
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newbi 2 basic
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i have unlimited e-mail space and attachment so i dont care

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AlecM
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newbi: unlimited? So I could email you a 10 gb file?
With web hosting there is no such thing as unlimited.. Unlimited just means they wont tell you what the limit is.


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lagmaster
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just to warn you lot, hotmail blocks gmail invites

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megamanx
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*hates microsoft's bullcrap*

here's a yahoo email that I haven't used for a LONG time...

justyourordinaryguy2003@hotmail.com
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GenTekZ
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i want in!! woo hoo!!! please someone invite me for the trip?!

gentekz@yahoo.com


edit: megaman.. thats also a hotmail acount.

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Trekky Troog
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Send Me an invite.
Would it help if i said I love you?

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Jeku
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Posted: 26th Jun 2004 03:06
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Who are you guys asking to send invites? I think most people who have an account aren't able to invite (I know I'm not). You are barking up the wrong tree, my friend.

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Alkaline
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jeku, you live in vancouver? hmmm... i was sailboating around that area last weekend. i live in the seattle area

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Jeku
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Whatever --- that's cool, which section of Vancouver were you sailing around?

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Alkaline
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just the south tip of it, didnt donk there cause we needed to turn around and sail all the way back to seattle in 2 days, and that was very tight to make cause i needed to go back to work.

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Killswitch
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How can Google afford to give everyone 1GB of space? They're going to get flooded with users as soon as its open to the public, I dread to think how many terrabytes thats going to use...

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Jeku
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Well for one thing even if they give you a whole Gigabyte, it doesn't mean they have to have that much free space cleared for you when you sign up, all saved until you need it. 99% of the people will use less 100MBs I predict.

(But yes, even 100MB is a lot when you give it to 1 million people)

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Chris K
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It's not hard to understand.

It basically goes like this - Google are very rich.
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Ocean Runner
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How do you get invited? I signed up for their mailing list thing. Is there some form to fill out?

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Manticore Night
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Quote: "didnt donk there"
I don't know what that means but it doesn't sound like something I'd wanna picture you doing.

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lagmaster
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you can get invites off ebay for peanuts now, or someone nicely on forums. or ask a friend!

google have their own server farm, it was reported they have 30,000-40,000 servers.

think of all the space

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WMG told me he works there (AKA Phenomenon Gaming Studios)

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