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Title: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on March 28, 2005, 11:06:56 PM
Well, like everyone else in the world, I've got a few GMail invites to hand out (50 of them, actually.)  So I figured I'd try and give them away.  
For those who don't know, GMail is Google's 'free' email service.  It's in Beta stages now, so it isn't open for the public, they expand the testing by allowing existing members to invite others to join.  Features are - 1 GB of free storage (which, with GMailFS, you can use as web storage), a nice, clean interface, search function for your archives.

Anyways, just either post here or PM me with your email address and I'll send you an invite.  :-)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: DonnyEMU on March 28, 2005, 11:41:33 PM
If he runs out of invites (which I doubt because they get refilled every few days), and anyone is without one. I'd be glad to contribute a few of my own as well..

-Don
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on March 29, 2005, 08:40:15 AM
Just so you know to check your e-mail, blobrana, adonay, adz and JJ, I've sent invitations to the accounts you specified.  :-)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: HopperJF on March 29, 2005, 11:11:22 AM
I have 50 too, so yeah. PM me if you want an account
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: on March 29, 2005, 11:55:04 AM
Quote

DonnyEMU wrote:
If he runs out of invites (which I doubt because they get refilled every few days), and anyone is without one. I'd be glad to contribute a few of my own as well..

-Don


Same goes for me.  No matter how many I give away, it keeps saying I still have 50 left to give out.

PM me if you want one.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on March 29, 2005, 12:25:35 PM
Well, I've gotten it down to 45 remaining  :lol: Maybe I should see if it IS actually possible to run out of GMail invites  :-D
LOL, reminds me of a Red Vs Blue episode -
"Does anyone want a GMail invite?  I only have 40,000.  It's very exclusive"  :lol:
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: blobrana on March 29, 2005, 07:01:17 PM
Hum,
You`ll run out of ppl.
Is that why they call it viral marketing?

(BTW, Tnx.)


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There are 6 billion people in the world. some understand binary, and some don't.....
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Robert17 on March 29, 2005, 07:30:11 PM
I'd like a GMail account, if it's easily acessible using my Amiga... pretty please :-)

Robert
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: on March 29, 2005, 08:15:32 PM
Quote

Robert17 wrote:
I'd like a GMail account, if it's easily acessible using my Amiga... pretty please :-)

Robert


You can use it with pop3 and smtp from YAM if Amiga browsers won't render the page correctly.

PM me your current email address and i'll send you an invite.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on March 29, 2005, 11:05:23 PM
Quote

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
You`ll run out of ppl.
Is that why they call it viral marketing?

(BTW, Tnx.)


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There are 6 billion people in the world. some understand binary, and some don't.....


Yeah, I probably will run out of people.  Down to  39 left now.  Anybody who hasn't gotten one can still contact me and I'll send one.

And  :lol: at your sig  :-P
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: weirdami on March 29, 2005, 11:33:39 PM
I think it's open to the public now. I got an invite from gmail not too long ago saying I could have an account now. I put myself on their mailing list and they finally emailed me. I already had an account by then, though because someone invited me. I have 50 invites, too. :-)

I think the invite thing is good because if you invite evil folks and they do bad, then its your fault and you're linked to the badness so you try to only invite good people you know.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: amigamad on March 30, 2005, 12:17:27 AM
you could get one free from here gmail invite (http://isnoop.net/gmail/index.php?key=0bcc37e5ab87c7f811157bd5f576b8f4)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on April 02, 2005, 10:38:29 AM
Just wanted to post that Google is doubling the amount of free storage with GMail to 2 GB.  I've also still got 39 invites left.   :-)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on July 03, 2005, 02:41:55 PM
Well, it's been a couple of months, and I have another 50 invites, as I'm sure almost everyone else here does as well.  They're annoying me, so if anyone still (perhaps if you've been hiding under a rock for the last 12 months) doesn't have a GMail account and they want one, pm me or post here.  :-)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: K7HTH on July 03, 2005, 02:58:30 PM
Yahoo mail is also 1GB of free storage and no invite is necessary.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on July 03, 2005, 03:00:52 PM
Nice.  Yeah, I'd heard about Yahoo upgrading.  GMail is 2.3gb (and increasing continuously) now.  
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: DonnyEMU on July 03, 2005, 07:02:50 PM
It's interesting after all of these invites that they have restrictions on the "types" of files you can send as attachments with the service. It sorta makes the have X gigs of storage sound mute.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: CyberDyne on July 28, 2005, 12:03:47 AM
I could use a gmail account if any of you would be kind enough to invite me  :-)

Thanks
CyberDyne
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: duesi on July 28, 2005, 12:16:42 AM
Quote

CyberDyne wrote:
I could use a gmail account if any of you would be kind enough to invite me  :-)

Thanks
CyberDyne


Same here thanks guys
Daniel
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on July 28, 2005, 12:46:02 AM
Alright, I'll PM you guys an invite now.  :-D
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: CyberDyne on July 28, 2005, 12:49:44 AM
Thanx a bunch! U Da Man  :-)

CyberDyne
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: sboisvert on July 28, 2005, 02:32:23 AM
Quote

Darklight wrote:
Well, like everyone else in the world, I've got a few GMail invites to hand out


No thanks, I'll keep my privacy.
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: Darklight on July 28, 2005, 03:50:29 AM
Well, in that case, you better not use the internet.  GMail's privacy policy is clear for anyone to see, and I fail to see how it is really any different to that of MSN - the only thing is that Google actually tells you what they're going to do.  Hotmail does exactly the same thing - filters email checking for spam, and displays advertisements based on your demographics.  I don't dislike Hotmail (I still have an account), but it's annoying when people bash GMail without having read the privacy policy.  Even if Google's scanning policy was extremely prohibitive and invasive (which it's not), I would still rather have that and no spam than 200 messages a day about my potential impotency problems and why I need viagra at 21  :-P
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: adz on July 28, 2005, 06:45:36 AM
Well, I too have over 30 invites left, so PM me if you're interested :-)
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: billchase on July 29, 2005, 04:28:45 AM
I would also like to get on board with GMail if anyone still
has the invites available.

C Snyder
Title: Re: Free GMail Invites
Post by: adz on July 29, 2005, 05:28:49 AM
@billchase

PM me with an email address and I'll send an invite.