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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: T_Bone on September 02, 2004, 04:58:20 AM
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Has anyone noticed that if you try to send a Gmail invite to a hotmail address, it bounces? It also bounces if you try to send the invite from a hotmail account.
:roll:
Hmmm, the invite link, pasted into a text file, and zipped, mailed as an attachment, bounces!
I actually had to encrypt the zip file. Geeze.
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WTH is an "invite"? :-?
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@Whabang
GMail is still beta. The only way you can presently get an account is by invite from an existing user.
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Karlos wrote:
@Whabang
GMail is still beta. The only way you can presently get an account is by invite from an existing user.
It's easy.
Go to Fark.com, register, go into the forums and beg! :lol:
There's even an ongoing thread to get all fark.com members invited to gmail. So far, everyone who's publically begged has been invited eventually.
The only stipulation being, is that you are supposed to invite 2 people from fark forums in return, not that anyone could force you to though. I did only because it's probably evil or something, not to. :-)
Should have more invites soon.
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Ah! So you can get a login there after all? :)
Can one of you please invite me?
connie @ whabang dot tk
Thanks!
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whabang wrote:
Ah! So you can get a login there after all? :)
Can one of you please invite me?
connie @ whabang dot tk
Thanks!
Sent. Enjoy!
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Danke!
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I registered only this morning
And now I can't login at all!
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
I've been trying all afternoon - guess it is in beta! :lol:
Shame I didn't get a heads up earlier, then I would have got the username I wanted - the one I've got is pretty good tho'
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I've got another invite available, who's next? :-)
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Have to say though, when it works, it works very nicely :-)
@whabang
Bitte sehr.
Wait a minute, aren't you Swedish?
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T_Bone wrote:
I've got another invite available, who's next? :-)
I might re-invite myself with the next one, so I can get another chance to mispell my own name :-D
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Can you guys access your account?
All I get is a server error...:-(
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Cyberus wrote:
Can you guys access your account?
All I get is a server error...:-(
Working here. Are you using firebird?
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No, straight Mozilla
edit: I'm just trying IE...and it works!
edit: Doh! No it doesn't. I can get the log in screen, and then when I hit enter I get a server error :-(
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:lol:
Now mine's down too, probably adding harddrives or updating software or something. :-)
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It seems the web interface is making very heavy use of javascript/DHTML. I expect making it work as well as it does (when it is working) across the spectrum of currently popular browsers took some real effort.
No problems in Firefox, btw.
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It's working now.
How do I invite people? Or do I have to wait for that privilege - I can't see any obvious link on the page...
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Once you send and receive a few mails, you will get a number of invites to use. Don't worry, you can't miss it once you get them ;-)
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Invited Poweramiga who also went begging and recieved 7 invites, gave me 2 of his, so I've got 2 more. For a while I couldn't seem to get them, now I can't get rid of them.
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Can somebody send an invite to me please?
My e-mail address is: sumner0007@hotmail.com
Cheers ;-)
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Ah, the troll returns
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Yes, and I'd like a g-mail invite if possible please. ;-)
The only reason I haven't been on here is that my home computer won't let me post. I have cleared the cache and everything but it just won't let me post. I am on a library computer at the moment if you were wondering.
Now, any chance of that g-mail invite, anyone? :-D
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T_Bone wrote:
Has anyone noticed that if you try to send a Gmail invite to a hotmail address, it bounces?
sumner7 wrote:
Can somebody send an invite to me please?
My e-mail address is: sumner0007@hotmail.com
*chortle*
:roll:
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Send it to this address then....
sumner7@inonebox.com
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sumner7 wrote:
Yes, and I'd like a g-mail invite if possible please. ;-)
The only reason I haven't been on here is that my home computer won't let me post. I have cleared the cache and everything but it just won't let me post. I am on a library computer at the moment if you were wondering.
Now, any chance of that g-mail invite, anyone? :-D
And what was your interest in the Amiga again?
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sumner7 wrote:
Send it to this address then....
sumner7@inonebox.com
sent
2 down 1 to go
[edit] 7! just recieved 6 more :lol:
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Thank you very much, T_Bone. :-)
Cyberus wrote:
sumner7 wrote:
Yes, and I'd like a g-mail invite if possible please. ;-)
The only reason I haven't been on here is that my home computer won't let me post. I have cleared the cache and everything but it just won't let me post. I am on a library computer at the moment if you were wondering.
Now, any chance of that g-mail invite, anyone? :-D
And what was your interest in the Amiga again?
@cyberus
For your information i own an Amiga 500+ which I have had for about 12-13 years. I love the amiga and don't you ever question my love for it!
Anyway, there are worse trolls than me, surely... :roll:
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Can someone please send me an invite too. I want a piece of this cake as well - i am tired of yahoo(!) mail.
spudmanno5@yahoo.co.uk (http://spudmanno5@yahoo.co.uk)
Cheers,
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CU_AMiGA wrote:
Can someone please send me an invite too. I want a piece of this cake as well - i am tired of yahoo(!) mail.
spudmanno5@yahoo.co.uk (http://spudmanno5@yahoo.co.uk)
Cheers,
sent, 5 left
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Does it support POP3/IMAP yet?
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Is gmail the google email system if it is i would avoid it they it scans your email for for certain keywords and delevers adverts on what word it finds. :-(
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amigamad wrote:
Is gmail the google email system if it is i would avoid it they it scans your email for for certain keywords and delevers adverts on what word it finds. :-(
It doesn't "deliver" adverts, it displays them discreetly on the right pane, just like it does when you do a normal google search.
Has anyone ever complained about the advertising on google searches? I don't even notice it.
@Blomberg
They're thinking of adding POP/IMAP access, currently there are gateways that will let you access with POP mail programs,and an HTTP parser/plugin is being tested for use with Outlook/OE/Evolution.
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amigamad wrote:
Is gmail the google email system if it is i would avoid it they it scans your email for for certain keywords and delevers adverts on what word it finds. :-(
I can honestly say that so far, the advertising is far less obtrusive than any other free webmail I've used. You get some text only links (like those in normal google search) down the right hand side of the display and thats it. No popups, no banners, no image links.
True the mail is scanned (using the same engine that powers the scans they do whenever you search for anything with google) but the EULA makes it clear that no humans will read your mail (aside from the intended recipients, of course) etc.
A 1000MB of message storage is worth the inconvenience. Hell, you can always get your money back :lol:
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/me puts on his pretty eyes and blinks
blom (splat) mailme (spot) dk
Pweeease? :-D
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Blomberg wrote:
/me puts on his pretty eyes and blinks
blom (splat) mailme (spot) dk
Pweeease? :-D
sent, 4 left :-)
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T_Bone wrote:
Blomberg wrote:
/me puts on his pretty eyes and blinks
blom (splat) mailme (spot) dk
Pweeease? :-D
sent, 4 left :-)
I never got that :-?
I'm not too worried, though, I got another invite curtesy of Mike_Amiga aka. ED-209, but I'm sorry I made you waste an invitation :-(
Thanks anyway :-)
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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:47:50 -0400
From: Troy Parker
Reply-To: Troy Parker
To: blomberg amiga <[censpr]>
Subject: blomberg, Troy Parker has invited you to open a Google mail account
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My fault, my blind @ss mistook .dk for .tk :crazy:
back to 5 :-)
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Hi!,
Any chance of adding me mate? Just had to drop me secondary account due to the massive amount of pretty offensive email I was getting...
Now wheres that fluttery eyed emoticon?
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Ah close enough :-D
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Three cheers for T_bone!
Hip-hip...
:-)