What's the deal with Gmail ?

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:17 pm

What's the deal with Gmail accounts ? I noticed people selling them , fighting over them etc .

I don't know anything about them except it's some kind of invite email ???

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:27 pm

Gmail is makin' a very limited (test) offerin'. i submitted my "interest" in obtaining an a/c several weeks ago; nothin' yet.

u can do the same by enterin' ur EM addy @ bottom o' This Link.

and y, i believe those who actually do get an a/c, can "invite" a limited # o' people ( i believe is 5 people ).

i'm not holdin' my breath

, but you ne'er know. i reckon 1,000 megabytes o' free space 2 be mighty fine.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:17 am

My ISPs emailaccount comes with 10MB space and it's more than enough for me. Yahoo just upped their emailspace to 100MB for their free accounts (2GB for paying customers) ... who needs so much space for emails anyways?
Another issue with gmail are the potential privacy risks that you have with (all) webbased emailservices.

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 8:53 am

Originally posted by DocSilly
My ISPs emailaccount comes with 10MB space and it's more than enough for me. Yahoo just upped their emailspace to 100MB for their free accounts (2GB for paying customers) ... who needs so much space for emails anyways?
Another issue with gmail are the potential privacy risks that you have with (all) webbased emailservices.

That's why I was wondering what the big deal was . I noticed on a couple of other forums there were people arguing over them like the accounts were the "must have" to continue on the internet . I have a 10MB ISP account and a 100 MB yahoo account and I can't imagine needing more space . ??

Thanks for the info darcy , I did enter my email addy at the page you pointed me to . If I get an invite you can have it

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:09 am

Originally posted by nitro237
Thanks for the info darcy , I did enter my email addy at the page you pointed me to . If I get an invite you can have it

ur v. welcome ~ and cool 'nuf!

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:28 pm

on a side note, like docsilly has in his sig.

change to firefox and thunderbird for browsing and email you will not be dissapointed.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:22 pm

Check THIS out concerning GMail. Kinda makes you wonder what else they might be up to doesn't it.

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:28 pm

Originally posted by dadx2mj
Check THIS out concerning GMail. Kinda makes you wonder what else they might be up to doesn't it.

u mean like M$ ??

Walleye · Post by **Walleye** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:03 pm

Originally posted by dadx2mj
Check THIS out concerning GMail. Kinda makes you wonder what else they might be up to doesn't it.

not really. they've been doing something similar to this for awhile now, with google context based adds. I think AT uses them. I adblock em off, though. but that's just me

TheSovereign · Post by **TheSovereign** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:17 pm

big deal, my email server has
unlimited space, unlimited size transfers, server side spam filters(youll never see a single spam), and webmail to boot

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:02 am

I've got some Gmail invites to give away, if any long standing PCA members want one, LMK...

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:11 am

i was invited, and opened, an a/c 'bout 2 days ago; how long 'til u got the invites, tunis? { so far i've received naught }.

LTrain · Post by **LTrain** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:30 am

I bought an invite on ebay, $2, why not? I've heard of all the privacy concerns, but if you think any of the other big webmails don't do it, you're wrong. They just don't admit it. Anyway, hotmail and yahoo are both upgrading their storage. Hotmail is going to 2GB with their paid account.

Larry

UberNeuman · Post by **UberNeuman** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:40 am

tunis5000 - can ya hook this brother up?

I like to take a look see at this fancy gmail thing all the kids seem to be crazy about...

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:05 am

it takes about 5 days or so to get invites

Uber, I'll PM you shortly