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Dodic
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:42
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have you noticed how in the last 6 months the use of google mail has raised ? -now 40% of the people in the whole world use it (at least that`s what it says on one web site...)


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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:44
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Yah Think? God, it isnt hard to believe! 2gb accounts, best ever.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:50
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40% of people in the whole world use it? I'd seriously doubt that Something like half the worlds populous don't even live in "developed" countries, let alone know what a computer is (never mind how to use one!)



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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:51
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maybe 40% of all computer users use it

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Evil stick
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:51
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I think it means 40% internet people.


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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:51 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 19:52
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amazing, we clicked post at the same time

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Blue Shadow
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 19:55
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For personal use GMAIL certainly rules the roost. It's because they used the very clever advertising strategy of invitations (it was no doubt copied by/from other people, but its still a great idea). It makes the whole thing seem exclusive.

You recieve an invite, you invite your friends, they invite theirs and so on and so forth until even your grandmother who still owns a PC running windows 95 has gmail.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:01
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Quote: "maybe 40% of all computer users use it"
Maybe. But even that is misleading. I mean my main accounts are my ISP one (25gb of backup storage apparently) and my work one. But I do have a hotmail one (my dad loves messenger and it works well with him, and just overcomplicates to communicate via a different system with him), a yahoo one (just to see what it was like; haven't really used it in ages), and a gmail one. Tend to use the yahoo and gmail one to setup accounts at sites I may not want to spam me in on my main accounts, but must admit Gmail is probably my fave online one. But even though I count in the 40%, I also use several others. So 40% of computer users may use gmail, but I bet the stats are similar (or even better) for other big ones, such as hotmail or yahoo. ie. it doesn't all add up to 100%, so 40% is not so impressive. 40% of all computer users use it as their *main* email account would be more impressive.

Is it still in beta BTW? I mean isn't it like almost 2 years old now?

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Robin
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:35 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 20:39
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I heard somewhere a while back that gmail wasn't actually allowed to be called gmail because some other company had registered the name a while back (some court case or something)...so gmail is going to change it's name...Something like that, can't remember exactly. Anyone else heard of this?

Robin

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39218121,00.htm

also wrt to 40% of internet users having a gmail account...well I reckon the number of people who have a gmail account and actually use it is much less. I think i'm like many who signed up for gmail when I got an invite but I don't actually use it.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:45
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new gmail accounts end in @googlemail.com not @gmails.com so you could be right there...


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dab
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:57
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Yah, gmail is getting pretty popular. Even my soccer coach wanted a gmail account (I sent him an invite)

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David T
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 21:08
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I thought it was just googlemail.co.uk...

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Mattman
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I always used gmail.com

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 21:19
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Quote: "gmail , becoming VERY popular"

gmail is annoying me i get at least 4 bits of spam a day

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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Hawkeye
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 21:22
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hehe, I pwnz you all, I got my invite back when the limit was 5 per member

New addresses (public) are googlemail.com, the old ones under the invite system are all gmail.com... or so I believe


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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lol i need to reinvite my self then

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 21:25
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Quote: "gmail is annoying me i get at least 4 bits of spam a day"


And that would be your fault

I was one of the early adopters who resorted to buying an account off eBay for $5. Sad, isn't it.


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:06 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 22:06
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Ehhh mattman? wtf?

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Robin
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:16
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yeah same happened to me.
I thought it was dabip ______ vgm sig though

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:21
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madman

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:39
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Quote: " I think it means 40% internet people."


Internet people? Oh, so we don't even count as real people anymore? That's nice.
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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Quote: "And that would be your fault
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Yeah suppose

Quote: "Internet people? Oh, so we don't even count as real people anymore? That's nice. "


Yeah i just got a girl on msn

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:56
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Quote: "Yeah i just got a girl on msn"

HAHAHAHAH I PWNZINATED J00z0rZ !!!







wtf. I didn't type that. No really, I didn't. Where's my medi--

...

oops >.<


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Quote: "Yeah i just got a girl on msn"


Yeah, you go and have fun with that 48 year old man.
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 23:53 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 23:54
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I'm not 48 and I'm not a man anymore so shut up you freak.

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Undercover Steve
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oh no, soapyfish and his cat are going to do bad things to me

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Ehh, sorry. Not sure what that is. Though, madman was upgrading the servers so that's what it could of been. (Don't knock it till you try the hosting service). Sorry about that.

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MaDmAn's down a lot, but the 2GB without banner ads is cool.

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