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Gmail Addresses For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the employment-at-will dept.

challahc writes "For the low, low price of $199, you too can be one of the lucky testers of Googles new Gmail service. Just Ebay It! This CNet News story has the details." Bill Walsh adds "The account for hackers@gmail.com is asking 200 dollars! Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta? Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"

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  1. i used to have by future+assassin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    gethacked@hotmail.com but forgot the password as it was saved in trillium and had to reformat and thats when I relized I should have wrote it down.

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  2. OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I submitted a story called "802.11b goes out to the ballgame in San Fran" more than a month ago, and it still is in the "pending" column. I wonder if they're saving it for a rainy day or something...

    1. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by Monkelectric · · Score: 3, Offtopic

      My all time record is 9 weeks pending, then rejected... I've never had a story posted on slashdot even when I beat another submitter to a story by a week. I have no idea what makes a story good or bad but I know whatever it is I don't have it... be prepared for a long wait my friend :)

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    2. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      True, but dupes belong in the "rejected" bin... but I guess putting one into "pending" isn't that bad, considering they've been known to be found in the "accepted" bin far too often. :)

    3. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by ikkonoishi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I got one on my first try, but then again it was comedy gold.

    4. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      It has more to do with, er, who you "know", if ya catch my drift in the "biblical" direction....

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    5. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, yeah... but somebody else pointed out to me that another post on that topic got posted same day. We now have future knowledge of a dupe! :)

    6. Re:OT:Slashdot = News.com + 2 days... or more by Martin+Blank · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I had one rejected just to show up about 12 hours later (without karma bonus), and I've had another get rejected, only to have it show up a few days later after being submitted by someone else (the Discover mag article about "anything to oil"). Stuff makes little sense here.

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  3. What has happened to all the moderators... by metalmaniac1759 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My default threshold is +3.
    And all I'm getting today is crap!

    Nandz.