anyone else have gmail?

Just curious. I got an invite last night, just wondering if anyone had any experience yet.

is it live? I signed up to be notified when it went online for the public, and haven't heard anything yet.

-sm

no it's not live, but there invitations flying around all over the place

just curious if anyone had any experiences yet

just fyi, I set mine up Sunday morning, and it's already 26% full :D

so if YOU have gmail, can you invite others to join? Like, maybe people on the cellar?

Google sends the only invitations, the best you can do is attempt to trade or buy someone else's gmail account.

while google is the one officially sending out the invites, they give them to individual users to invite people

I've gotten a couple of invites to give out so far, it seems the more the account is used the more invites you get to send out.

Just got the invite myself... probably for being an adwords buyer on our behalf. You could figure out what I put at gmail dot com. My main motivation was to preserve the username (undertoad). I dunno how much I'll remember to check it though...

Could you copyright it or something, UT?:confused:

This is the mail service that is going to show ads based on what your messages contain, right?

yup. as previously vetted.

-sm

Am I the only one tht has zero interest in this?
I've got about 6 invites for Orkut but there is no way in hell I'm filling out a profile of me that detailed linked to my name for no particular benifit.

Yahoo is playing catch up now. They just boosted their mail account size to 100 MB on free accounts.

Originally posted by Troubleshooter
Yahoo is playing catch up now. They just boosted their mail account size to 100 MB on free accounts.

...and my Yahoo Plus account went up to 2GB. But of course, it's not free... $20/year.

Maybe it's just shakedown cruise issues, but I'm finding the new, improved, huge mailbox YahooMail to be grindingly slow.

I'm really a huge fan of gmail. I love the thread-style messaging, and it's got all sorts of pretty colors.

I'm hesistant about switching all my addresses over though, because I like using Yahoo's addy book and calendar.

*Sigh* I guess it's been overloading though, because none of google's sites are working this morning.

Fucking internet ...

Well, I just got an invite to GMail. I am a special boy. They don't allow underscores in their usernames, though, so I had to settle for [email]hot.pastrami@gmail.com[/email].

First impressions... clean interface, snappy response time. I like the reply box being at the bottom of a received message, and I like the conversation view. It seems a bit short on customization options, but they are in Beta, so maybe there are more on the way. And I don't see any way to import mail or consolidate mailboxes as Yahoo Plus allows, so GMail won't be my primary contact address, barring any upcoming changes in that direction.

So overall, it has lots of nifty new ideas, and a lot of potential. Here's hoping... the guys at Google are clever sons of bitches.

Mine is [email]ptireland@gmail.com[/email] and I've only had it for a few minutes, but it seems ok. I use a lot of web based email addresses so I think I'll be able to judge the features pretty well. I like the "label" system so far. Most other web-based mail systems will allow you to format your messages (font, color, background, etc.) but this seems to be plain text only which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the flexibility to do such formatting is nice to have.

I only have a Yahoo account b/c of My Yahoo and YIM. Earthlink has web-based e-mail, so I haven't had a need for a web-based account in 5 years.

Here's a site with some info about Gmail.

Gmail is too creepy

I have a million invites to send, and no nerdy friends to whom I can send.

If you want a gmail invite, pls email me at chris.wang220 (@) gmail.com.

My cousin needs one. I still haven't gotten invites to give out. His email address is [email]plastik_lazee@hotmail.com[/email]

Thanks again.

Radar - I'd mask that email address if I were you. put brackets around the @ or spell out "at".

Hey Breaking news, thanks. (He just sent me an invite.)

Now I've got Gmail. And the username I hoped for.

Thanks Chris!

I'd like having gmail. If somebody still has an invitation : pmajerus (@) internet.lu
Thx

I just found out that thousands of people are selling invitations to Gmail on E-Bay. They are going for about $1 each, when they are selling at all.

Gmail invitations on E-Bay

A friend on another message board kindly gave me an invite, but my husbnad would like on as well, if anyone has one to give. His email address is [email]mdolfan67@yahoo.com[/email]. Didn't want to pester anyone with a mail from me in case you've gotten thousands of requests already.

Thanks to anyone who can help. :)

I must say that I don't get the desire for the invites ... it's just another free email address, right? And one that has some security/privacy issues attached.

What's the big deal?

I went to sign up for one (what the heck - if nothing else, its a gig of free backup space for files I might want to retrieve from elsewhere). So I started to register with all my bogus info and when I'm all done, it tells me that my security settings are too high (not too high for yahoo mail, netscape mail and a few other accounts, tho) - apparently, it couldn't dig deep enough into my computer and told me to lower the bar.

The stuff from gmailIsWeird.com started getting to me and I thought man is this an email signup or an anal probe and ditched the whole idea.

wolf wrote:

I must say that I don't get the desire for the invites ... it's just another free email address, right? And one that has some security/privacy issues attached.

What's the big deal?

Agreed. Comcast gives me a bunch of accounts and one on Yahoo for crap. Why do I need more? I have a feeling there's shit I don't know :eyebrow:

Beestie wrote:

The stuff from gmailIsWeird.com started getting to me and I thought man is this an email signup or an anal probe and ditched the whole idea.

Too late, man. It already knows who/where you are. It's coming to get you. :ninja: