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roadies writes "Despite all the negativity and privacy concerns that surround Gmail, it has still gained cult-like status where net-d0rks feel self validated by having a gmail address and will do anything to get one. Services like the Gmail Machine, a randomized Gmail lotto that has people hitting refresh until they get carpel-tunnel in the index finger, reports over 7 million pageviews (though, definitely not uniques) in 3 days and 55 invites given away. They just added 222 more through donators who have given up invites in exchange for a text link on the high-traffic site. GmailSwap (covered recently on /.) has given away everything from cameras to good vibes. Good news for hardpressed geeks: The invites are becoming more and more available and mainstream. Ebay once had gmail invites going for a couple hundred dollars. Now, nobody is bidding on them anymore, so you can purchase one the old-fashioned eBay way for a dollar or two." Reader marklyon writes "Third party developers have stepped in with utilities that enhance and improve GMail. One utility, Mbox
& Maildir to Gmail Loader allows users to upload their existing email to
their GMail account. Another, POP
Goes the GMail, offers the ability to access your GMail account with any POP
mail reader, giving users the ability to permanently archive messages. GTray
lives in your taskbar and alerts you to incoming messages. Other, more
general programs, allow you to forward your Hotmail
or Yahoo! Mail messages to your
new GMail account. The question that remains, however, is whether Google will
work with or against third party developers in GMail's future."
Initially I got a couple of invitations I could give away, every couple of weeks, and it was easy to find close friends to give them to. Then I found I had seven invitations this week and had run out of obvious candidates. I tried gmailswap, but the interesting ones (like a pound of Kona coffee) went too quickly, and the others were uninteresting to me. So I sent a note to my orkut friends, and quickly had well over a dozen requests for accounts despite including a disclaimer pointing to gmail-is-too-creepy.com :). I gave away the ones I had, and surprisingly got a few more the
very next day. I still have a queue of about 5 people I owe accounts
to.
PS. This was a really, really nice Slashdot article, with a treasure trove of gmail information. Well done.
Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
it has still gained cult-like status
OK, I was one of the sheeple who used to go a few times weekly to the gmail website to check things out.
But I awoke earlier this week to my Yahoo premium account suddenly offering two, not one, gigabytes of email storage... and all without the (overblown) privacy concerns and advertising. *And* I only pay $19.95/yr. for it.
I'm not (or at least don't need to be) interested in Gmail anymore. I've moved on and Yahoo has succeeded in taking the wind out of Gmail's sails, at least for me.
Sigs cause cancer.
Educate a rube.
What's so big about Gmail, anyway? Is it the gigabyte of storage? The allure of using something offered by Google? The excitement of being admitted to a semi-exclusive online club?
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
But instead bought an old 1 GB harddrive on eBay for 50 cents.
Unknown host pong.
I have one invite left. First to email me for one gets it.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
By the time any normal person can accumulate 1GB worth of e-mail from a service starting today 1GB will be so fantastically cheap (they aren't already?) that it just won't matter.
Got the invite, love the interface, can't view it from work.
Still hanging on to my shell account.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Yahoo now offers 100 mb to all free accounts, and 2 gigabytes to premium accounts. I love competition.
and have been unable to get detailed information about the beta program, how are people that are paying or trading possesions certain that all the accounts won't disappear when the beta is over in order to start the program with a clean slate?
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
My impression: It's nice webmail. That's it.
I don't see the huge hype, but then again I did click on that invite link, didn't I?
sulli
RTFJ.
What I noticed was that as soon as Yahoo announced they were upping their email limit, Gmail started letting me invite about 5 people a day.
Understand that I already have a backlog of 10 slashdotters waiting for accounts, but I labeled them all and as the invites trickle in, I'll pass them on...my friends and family and irc buddies are already hooked up.
Cheers!
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
.. would be Google Messenger.
Use Gmail address as a login ID, use it to capture the business IM and email market
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Thanks,
A geek who needs to feel some validation.
"Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them." -- David Brent
Spymac.com has free hosting, 1GB of email, none of the privacy concerns of gmail, and a very easy to use site.
And it existed before gmail
One thing I noticed about GMail was that it was, at least for a short time, a small commercial market within itself. The market ebbed and flowed depending on if invites had become availble that day or not. Originally, there were few accounts, and I managed to snatch one up thanks to my Blogger account - while it lasted, my invites were gold. Before the market "crashed" a few weeks ago, I managed to get unlimited virtual hosting and some nude pictures from a college CS girl who wanted one for "geek cool". My, it was great.
Of course, then the market crashed. So now GMail Swap and others are worthless. But I've been using my invites for another purpose now - I currently have 30 GMail addresses to my name, including some interesting ones. I figure, although the rarity may not exist in having an account, the rarity could exist in having the account you want. Commercialism rises again.
How does one get invited. I crave the invitation. I am almost tempted to start my own Google just so I could then invite myself to gmail.
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Is Your Boss A Muppet?
I just pulled 1335 on the gmail lotto. how annoying is that?
as if i didn't have enough time-sucking webpages to visit every day, here's one more...
1 down!
:-)
Seems I still have 5 more left! Keep those mails coming!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Funniest response to this post gets a free invite.
I already have 'unlimited' storage (currently 50G free, but I could easily drop another drive in the server if I felt it was getting short) for my email, with pop3, imap and squirrelmail access to it from anywhere.
:)
I'm not sure how good squirrelmail is at searching through the old mail; perhaps I should look into that. If it's that important I can always ssh in and grep through the mail directories anyway
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The success of Gmail is not the amount of space. That's called a gimmick. The success of Gmail is its searchability.
In the long run, having a gig of mail is pointless if you can't find what you're looking for. Assume you can have all the space in the world and you didn't delete a single email. How will you find the email sent sometime ago that you can't remember from a girl you can't remember who conversed with you on craigslist but you did remember her fantasy about being your naughty bukkake star?
You can't! Not without search.
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Can someone manage a mirror for the GTray file? Sounds handy.
(somewhat OT, but you can't or shouldn't move your work email to gmail, so...)
For those of you who want powerful search of your 10000s of messages locked up in a work exchange server, try Lookout soft . I've used it with about 12000 messages on the exchange server and local outlook folders, and never had a search take more than 0.2 seconds. Still free while in beta mode.
Remain calm! All is well!
This is Zeikfried Tuvai of the GNAA, and I am currently in possession of RobMalda@gmail.com.
I am willing to sell this in return for sexual favours and/or pounds stirling, please e-mail your offers to the above address.
Wil Wheaton [clevernickname] is working on a project to donate Gmail invites to soldiers serving overseas who all have Hotmail which sucks. Go to his weblog entry for the skinny.
...what the big deal is? What on earth is Google going to offer me above what my plain ol' POP3/IMAP + Opera/Pegasus/whatever client already offers? What's it going to offer that my freebie Operamail account doesn't offer?
Maybe I'm not one of the cool kids. Seems to me that all my computing is done on my laptop, and having *all* my important mail (ie. the university account, my permanent email address) POP3'd to my laptop is just *perfect*. I can search it six ways to Sunday, it's always here, it's on a secure system, etc.
So... why gmail?
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Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
By keeping a hotmail account past 2000, you are officially a third class geek. You are slightly more geeky than someone using an aol email account, but not by much.
Matt Fahrenbacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
E-mail me at teetek225 at yahoo dot com
while invites last....
The question that remains, however, is whether Google will work with or against third party developers in GMail's future.
Considering that Google's developed APIs to access their bread-and-butter search engine programatically, they will probably offer something similar for Gmail. In my mind, the free email services don't make much money from users accessing their stuff from home (where they usually have ad-blockers installed), but when they access it from a public computer where they will definitely see the ads.
-hadohk
...You can "star" incoming messages based on criteria. Edit a filter. "Star It" is one of the filter options.
Problem solved?
The interface is really fast. A lot of functions don't require real page re-loads.
I do need to check POP mail (IMAP would be grand), but I realize they're probably holding off on that until the real release.
I'm glad someone values keyboard commands again.
I got an account, but it's pretty much useless to me. For some strange reason the site doesn't work at all with Opera. They had some weird javascript with their buttons that made it not work. A big departure from the normal Google design methodology.
Would happily pay $20/year or so for IMAP access to my account.
Just got my GMail account yesterday. Had already sent off an email to my contacts telling them my exclusive new email address. Then I found out GMail doesn't support the Opera browser (or vice versa) yet. Bummer, I love Opera like I love my family. So I download this Pop Goes The GMail program, and it is sorely disappointing. I haven't checked it with other clients, but it doesn't seem to function well at all with Opera's mail client. Hotmail Popper was fantastic in it's compatability and reliability. So I will wait patiently for Opera to play nicely with GMail. In the mean time, I've got to use IE. I am however thinking of having my work email forwarded to my GMail account for it's search abilities alone.
;-)
BTW, if anyone has any potential solutions to my problems, let me know! If you can help me, who knows, maybe you might get a Gmail account
How do the giving out of invitations work from Google to account holders? I recently got an account and hear about others who get more every few days. I have yet to get any and it has been about 4 days now.
I see Gmail as a novelty item right now. More of a way for people to brag about their gig of email. My pop3 account holds 15 meg, which is enough since I only give it out to personal friends (and the Dilbert Newsletter ;-)). I use hotmail for registering for services and all the spam goes there. I am muchly content with my non-Gmail services.
We all live in a #FFFF00 submarine...
Since I am a Treo user, I still valued having the ability to check my account from my phone. But I also really liked the Gmail interface when I was at my desktop. So here's what I did:
I was pleased to see that Google allows you to override the reply-to address, so I immediately changed that to my current email address.
I then deleted my IMAP account and set up a mail forwarding alias that directs any incoming messages to my Gmail account as well as a pop account on the hosting provider's server.
I use the POP account to check mail from my Treo, and it also gets picked up by my Outlook client for permanent archiving.
The best part is I was able to switch my email exclusively to Gmail without anyone noticing the switch. This is top notch stuff.. Google has done something extraordinary here.
www.lonseidman.com
They are making their webmail a playfield like is the domain name ownership one, and if it last months a to have really big webmail mailboxes, ligth webpages, intelligent spam/virus filtering and threaded mail view will be so common than when it will be finally out could be no news.
I even wonder if in the open source webmail market not exist already one that provides a good part of what gmail will give who knows when.
At this moment i would open the registration in gmail, not by invitation, but at will, still leave there the "beta" mark to show that still could be rough edges, but to accaparate the market before is too late. What if i.e. the actual Teoma come out around the same time google started? still google would be the #1?
Well, anyway, i could be wrong, not tested yet so i can't say how hard or easy could be duplicated with advantages, but so far for non-users is almost vapourware.
All fresh out now! Anyone who mailed me and didn't get one, I'll keep you on file and as soon as the invite counter resets, I'll hook you up.
Thanks all that asked! Hope you enjoy your accounts!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
How do you think the spam filters work? Magic ESP SPAM detection?
No, it scans your mail - just like GMail does when it's filtering SPAM of considering ads to feed up.
The only email providers that do not scan mail are the ones that allow anything to pass.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've been experimenting with a Python interface to Gmail. Just released version 0.1 today. Hope it's helpful to someone.
I have one invite. First one to respond to this post gets it. I can queue up the others for when I get more, if they are willing to wait.
I hate sigs.
Gmail Machine makes you hit refresh until the number 1337 commes up. Anyone have a refresh perl script to do this until it captures the string? Looks like nothing complicated; I may try and do it unless someone else has one already built.
Would someone mind sending me an invite? Remove the dashes from my current email: m-p-a-r-r-i-s-h@e-m-a-i-l.com
Thanks!
-WiseDragon (Slashdot user 71071)
Why are these nude pictures not shared?
My god, this is pathetic. This non-event is like, say, the announcement that Britney Spears is coming to town, with the Spice Girls opening. Do you REALLY want your friends to know you were there? Or are your friends, in fact, WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO? Man, I've aged out . . . .
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
After this article, I figured I'd better use my invite and register.. Only to get the following..
We're sorry, but we don't seem to be compatible.
Our software suggests that you're using a browser incompatible with Gmail. Gmail currently supports the following:
* Microsoft IE 5.5 and newer (download: Windows)
* Netscape 7.1 and newer (download: Windows Macintosh Linux )
* Mozilla 1.4 and newer (download: Windows Macintosh Linux )
* Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and newer (download: Windows Macintosh Linux )
* Safari 1.2.1 and newer (download: Macintosh )
While we're still testing Gmail, you can also click here to use your unsupported browser, though you likely will encounter some areas that don't work as expected. You need to have Javascript and cookies enabled, regardless of the browser you use.
But hey, no worries. It seems to work. And it is fast as hell and looks pretty cool. Not that I'd ever use someone else's domain for serious email.
Yikes - big problem.. You can't middle-mouse click on a message to open it in a new window. That blows.
The question that remains, however, is whether Google will work with or against third party developers in GMail's future.
Provided that the things such as the POP3 forwarder do not circumvent the ads which are highly non-intrusive, and which Google relys on a good deal.
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if any of you want a gmail invite hit me up, i only have two
can I have an invite??
Email: ninjakNOSPAM@gmxNOSPAM.de
Remove both instances of NOSPAM to get my true email.
Man, I love it when people start whining about a computer searching their e-mail. So i guess yahoo dosen't have a spam filter then? What, hotmail has to parse the text of every e-mail before it determines that that message about penis extensions is spam. How do you think e-mail programs work out that not every mail saying 'Hey, haven't talked to you in a while' is spam
G-mail's problem is not that it scans your e-mail, but rather that the good people are honest and upfront with what they are doing.
I'm sure people would all be thrilled about a virus check if it was billed as 'automatic file parser.' Sure, it might seem weird having a conversation about your favorite jewish actor and getting an add for 'learn hebrew in 24 hours' but that's only because google is utilising what everyone else has. And their only crime was the niavety that people would find this useful. Had they said 'magic pixies work out what you want and sudgest how to get it, while you browse your e-mail,' the tinfoil hate wearing community would embrace it (after all, fairies can't get through tinfoil!).
G-mail is a wonderful, not only because of the unprecedented amoutn of free space, but because of it's intuative and innovative features that help you organise your e-mail while still having that sexy, clean, not 'all up in yo' face' look google is so good for.
If i had to chooose between microsoft and google, i pick the one who vows to 'do no evil' and, so far, has done nothing to make me think otherwise
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
That python script to transfer your mbox files to gmail doesn't work very well. I'm trying it on the unix machines at my office and it won't read my mbox files...sigh, I don't really want to screw around with the source code now...maybe I will try it at home.
If you liked this thought maybe you would find my blog nice too:
Yeah, since 98% of humans on earth have no idea what ssh is, they obviously have no right to use the internet. Because it's your internet and you make the rules.
I got five invites for the first five people to reply to this post.
Wherever you go, there you are!
Wow, that worked ? ;)
:)
I never thought I would lower myself to this level, but if anyone has one spare, I'd appreciate it
t3h-invite at zone-mr dot ath dot cx
If you're really paranoid, just PGP your messages. Granted there's no direct plugin I know of yet, but I'm sure it's about to come. Then again there's always c&p into your email.
The propensity for unencrypted emails to be read and intercepted has existed on the net, but people just ignored the possibility or figured the probability of it happening them is low.
If it bothers you there's an indefinate log of your email, encrypt it--So what if google shows you nothing by PGP ads on the right side of your screen ?
I WILL RAP FOR GMAIL:
What up everyone, I'm a real deal rapper/
When i turn the lights off i use tha clapper/
But i aint no grandma, Im a G/
thats why i never pay, cuz i get girlies for free/
so hook it up youngsta cuz i need gmail/
i wont whine and beg cuz i aint no female/
send me an invite and ill give u props/
cuz my rappin here is strictly the tops
ninjak@gmx.de ----- HOOK IT UP PLEASE
Thanks,
D. RAPPER
Reload...reload...reload...reload...reload... It's exactly like Slashdot!
"My girlfriend's got sodium laureth sulfate hair."
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From the entry:
A worthy cause, I should think. Currently, I believe people are just looking over at gmailswap for service men and women to donate their invites to, until this 'clearinghouse' is created.
I thought some slashdotters might be willing to participate.
Voices--Art, Poetry, Photography
I bet this is just what the GMail Machine wanted.. thousands of /. readers hitting refresh over and over and over. You'd think they would at least put some ads on the page to get some revenue from it..
/.ers? I got my wife a gmail account from gmail swap when they were going for good stuff.. but now I want one!
Any extra invites out there, you friendly
__ No registration required to read this message. They did it in the Matrix.
contact me if you want one. first 6 get invites.
Slashdotting a site which encourages users to repeatedly hit refresh?
;)
A new low, or were they just asking for it?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this already. Personally, I think GMail is fine and dandy except that I want to use Mail to read and send, and can completely do without the web interface aside from road trips.
I checked out the PC Pop goes the Gmail to look for clues how they did it, but can't find anything useful. I've also tried using the httpmail plugin (designed for Hotmail and Mail), but am not sure how to configure it.
So, how about it? I hear they're planning on POP for some point in the future, but I want to start using GMail as my privacy account now!
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
Gmail also has ability to run secure:
https://www.gmail.com
I received my GMail invitation via my Yahoo Mail inbox just fine. This was last week.
And to tell the truth, I prefer Yahoo Mail to GMail by far, but that's another story.
Thanks for the post, oh fake video game company employee troll who needs karma points.
If you don't accept/reply to messages from Gmail your gesture is worth less than the click you didn't take.
Want secure email? Get a cert and encrypt your messages. Only send messages to people on your same server. Make sure no one else has access to the server. Only you. Because as soon as that message leaves your client it is vulnerable to attack.
Now is this likely to occur? Unless you are some sort of leet cracker duude or on some govy watch list or undersurvelllience guess what... Your rantings and "insights" have less value to the BigBrother complex than they do to the poor sap to which they were sent.
Your messages are only valuable as part of a larger statistical model. If you have had an expectation of privacy when dealing with email you have been sadly mistaken.
I am pro-lifechoice.
Please send me an email to coderman at peertech.org with your first and last name, and email address (this is for the form).
I will reply with your current position in the queue of people wanting an invite, and when I get more invitations (currently 5 every one to three days) I'll send you one.
All I ask is this:
1. Please tell me if you get invited before your turn in queue, otherwise I will waste an invitation.
2. Please don't sell this invite, or sell the invites you subsequently get from your own account.
People who sell or extort for invites lack integrity and are selfish. Don't be that kind of person.
I got a free invite just for using Blogger ... and so did another friend using it. I'm assuming all Blogger users get one ...
So of course I signed up for mine. Free is free, right?
If anyone has an invite to donate, I'd appreciate it greatly. I can be reached at c-m-a-s-o-n-3-2@yahoo.com (remove the dashes).
:)
Thank you.
Slashdot vs. a 1 Gig Inbox: Who Will Win?
From the Gmail Help Center:So, unless you've covered your tracks very well, don't expect to hold onto those accounts. I know of at least one case where a user who made more than one account had all his accounts shut down.
Gmail is currently in beta. Use of that beta is a priviledge, not a right, so abusing it is the quickest way to find yourself locked out.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Yes.
I'd love one please to try it out... If anyone has one going please invite me - chchpete@hotmail.com!! I'll reply to this post when I get one, so you know you're not wasting your time! Thanks in advance, Pete!
I will trade this slashdot account for a gmail invite. Reply if you're interested.
Sort of lowish kind of UID ending in 00!!!! What a great account...
Yes, my blog at blogspot.com got me my Golden Gmail Ticket. Frankly I don't know what all the hubbub is about. I look at it as yet another disposable address. :P
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
http://webtranslation.paralink.coma
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
please please please???
spamism666@yahoo.com
Safari support only got added a couple of weeks ago and it's likely that Opera support is just around the corner.
Remember, the service is still in beta and far from being close to a full roll-out (there isn't even a "save as draft" option at the moment) so the current Opera incompatibility shouldn't be taken as an indication that Gmail will always be unusable to Opera users.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Ive had gmail for a few days now.. still havent gotten any invites to hand out?
Ah, yet another answer providing a l33t solution that requires 3 times the effort but don't result in anything nearly as useful. This must be slashdot...
Seriously, who the fsck would want to ssh to their mail servers and grep the spool when they could just type in a search term and instantly access the email within the context of its thread?
(Yeah, I know this was probably a troll)
Already at 1GB for email, 100MB webspace, and 250GB for Gallery pics.
No waiting, sign up now.
And no, not jut for macheads.
And send me a Gmail invite/and or lots of porn ;)
kevin_liversage@yahoo.co.uk
Not so much anon coward eh.
You mean you can't have folders??! Sounds lame... apart from that - any screenshots of the "sharp user interface"
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Is there an open source project going on to implement a similar interface to gmail (I think labels are really a great idea) for the webmail of my server ? :)
... but it might not be easy to store label information in IMAP ...
Ideally it would be able to use IMAP as its backend to stay compatible with other clients
Anyway if somebody has a spare invite i'm really interested (trying is the best way to start implementing it if it's not already started)
gmail.50.freeman@spamgourmet.com
thanks
Yes, the spymac interface is quite bloated, slow, and mac oriented.
But...I pop3 down to my machine, and leave the mail on spymacs server, for searching, access when I'm away from home, backed up on their dime.
It does have it's uses.
Some people may associate that current logo with "rebooting" but that may only serve as a mnemonic...
Why, of course I am also reloading that Gmail Machine lottery page with Pavlovian efficiency but one must always thrive for excellency...
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?
Invitations on ebay are now selling for over $20
You can mod me down, but you cannot call me a coward.
I just refreshed a few times (they changed server - and apparently it can take the slashdot load) - and I got 1337! But after submitting your email, you get a 404 error. Great.
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
It poses some interesting questions which probably doesnt sit too well with the "Linux-Apple-Google'are-the-good-guys-so-they-can- do-no-wrong" crowd around here.
/. crowd ?
How bout a top 10 questions for the Google bosses from the
Im sure as geek faves, they wouldnt mind answering questions from a group which fawns over them. Of course, if we lob mainstream press softballs at them...
zack
How long till some uber-nerd builds a filesystem that uses GMail accounts for storage space? For each account you have your filesystem grows by 1gb, and you could raid different accounts so when google shuts you down for abuse, you don't loose your data. It just needs to do a lot of caching and email uuencoded data chunks to yourself to store the bits. I think its a winner... I should patent that idea.
I got 1338! Damn the forces at work in this ordeal of torture!
M$ Lawyer: But `gcc
You sirs of Gmail Machine have gained my utmost respect. I have watched, in under 20 minutes, your hitcounter move from 7.4 -> 8.2 millions hits. Thats 800,000 hits in 20 minutes, or about 670 hits per second. You have made monkeys out of us, something I haven't seen done so subtly in a long while. Congratulations in your enslavement of the internet populace at large.
And I salute my new gmail-code-bearing overlords!
At least the war on the environment is going well
Google is a devil and Gmail is one of it's tools!
Goodness, all the groveling for Gmail invites. I should change the cartoon so that the last stage in devolution is not a mere Gmail logo, but something like a Slashdot logo superimposed on a Gmail logo.
You moved from IMAP to web only email? Heh
For me its the other way.. I have a gmail account but its only for novelty. Gmail users started getting invites quite regularly from last week or so.. Gmail's nice(damn fast) but I need one feature it doesn't offer-IMAP mail. I have a 1GB hosting account and only 50MB is used for hosting.. so the rest is available for email.
A few days back, my yahoo account was near its limit and I received a warning about it. The very next email was from yahoo again, this time to notify that my storage had increased.
But the madness for gmail accounts is amazing. In orkut there are like 40 communities setup to beg for invitations. The largest is 1000 odd members and there's even 1 that says "we hate gmail" so that some gmail member with invites might stop by and have pity on those pathetics(is that a word?).
My wild guess about when gmail is available to the public?- About a week before Google's IPO.
It would give users enough time to use gmail and probably become interested in buying a few shares( this reasoning's wrong but who knows).
The other guess is that gmail will not become public until a much later time. Once it becomes open to the public, millions will sign up for accounts.. maybe google wants to do it in a phased manner. Invites might continue to increase from say 3 a day to 10-20. This is a lot more orderly and won't overburden the servers.. I don't know, I'm just talking out of my ass.
About two years ago, my colleagues and I at Cape Clear devised something called GoogleMail. It was an extremely simple email interface to the Google API. You just send an email to google@capeclear.com and receive a reply with the top ten search results. I just checked it, and it still works. As you can see by the news coverage (scroll down), everyone loved the idea, even though it was practically useless. The only exceptions seemed to be visually-disabled people and those in countries whose governments blocked Web access to Google. We were contacted by Google and asked to change the name, which was fair enough. It now goes by CapeMail. I imagine a scenario, though, where somebody at Google brings up our little invention at a meeting. "GoogleMail? They can't call it that. Get legal on the phone." Legal calls us, and we change the name. However, the phrase GoogleMail sticks in somebody's head back at Google corporate HQ. Two years later, Gmail is borne. Coincidence? Probably, but it's fun to speculate.
Lowest number: 4 Highest Number: 19812 Closest number: 1332 Numbers that temprorarily fooled you: 137 13937 1997 What are yours?
If any kind souls out there still have an invite to spare, i'd love one - email tmr4488@ritvax.rit.edu
Thanks!
haahhaahaha good one :)
"Just execute the binary file that I send you!"
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Whoo hoo!
I refreshed for about 5 minutes and won!
I just won a gmail account from the gmachine in 15 refreash's :D Cant be that hard
Girl: Hi
Boy: hello
Boy: who is this?
Girl: just a someone?
Boy: A someone I know?
Girl: nope
Boy: Then why the hell are you bothering me?
Girl: well sorrrrrry
Girl: I just wanted to chat with you
Boy: why?
Girl: nevermind your an asshole
Boy: Hey wait a minute
Girl: yes?
Boy: look I'm sorry. I'm just a little paranoid
Girl: paranoid?
Boy: yes
Girl: of what?
Girl: me?
Boy: No. I'm in hiding.
Girl: LOL
Boy: Don't f***ing laugh at me!
Boy: This s**t is serious!
Girl: What are you hiding from?
Boy: The cops.
Girl: gimme a f**king break
Boy: I'm serious.
Girl: I don't get it
Boy: The cops are after me.
Girl: For what?
Boy: I'm wanted in three states
Girl: For???
Boy: It's kindof embarrasing.
Boy: I had sex with a turkey.
Boy: Hello?
Girl: You are f**king sick.
Boy: Send me your picture.
Girl: why?
Boy: so I know you aren't one of them.
Girl: One of what?
Boy: The cops.
Girl: I'm not a cop i told you
Boy: Then send me your picture.
Girl: hold on
Boy: Hurry up.
Boy: Are you there?
(continued)
George W. Bush
georgyboy@whitehouse.gov
1
When can I expect it?
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Boy: f**k you, cop!
Girl: Hey sorry
Girl: I had to do something for my mom.
Boy: I thought you were trying to find a picture to send to me.
Boy: When really you were notifying the authorities.
Boy: Weren't you!?
Girl: thats not it
Boy: Then what?
Girl: I don't want to send you the picture cause I'm not pretty
Boy: Most cops aren't
Girl: IM NOT A f**kING COP YOU DICKHEAD!
Boy: Then send me the picture.
Girl: fine. What's your e-mail?
Boy: Just send it through here.
Girl: alright *PIC*
Girl: Did you get it?
Boy: Hold on. I'm looking.
Girl: That was me back in may
Girl: I've lost weight since then.
Boy: I hope so
Girl: what?!?
Girl: that hurt my feelings.
Boy: Did it?
Girl: Yes. I'm not that much smaller than that now.
Boy: Will it make you feel better if I send you my picture?
Girl: yes
Boy: Alright let me find it.
Girl: kks
Boy: Okay here it is. *PIC*
Girl: this isn't you.
Boy: I'll be damned if it ain't!
Girl: You don't look like that.
Boy: How the hell do you know?
Girl: cause your profile has another picture.
Boy: The profile pic is a fake.
Boy: I use it to hide from the cops.
Girl: You look like the Farm Fresh guy lol
Boy: Well, you look like you ATE the Farm Fresh guy....
Boy: Not to mention all the groceries.
Girl: Go f**k yourself
Boy: I was going to until I saw that picture
Boy: Now my dick won't get hard for a week.
Girl: I shouldn't have sent you that picture.
Girl: You've done nothing but slam me.
Girl: you hurt me.
Right now the page has been refreshed 9.623.442 times, and only 72 of those refreshes resultet in the 1337 number. 1 in 133659 got the right number, and it only ranges from 1-20000 (it was a different range for a while I think he wrote)...
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
God
youIsOwned@Heaven.god
Your life expectancy is much lower now.
--All the best,
God
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears14: Hey...
bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl 8 Penis of the Infinite.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it.
bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
bloodninja: Don't **** with me biznitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl 2 Druid.
BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?
Bloodninja:Wanna cyber? ;-)
DirtyKateK, but don't tell anybody
DirtyKate:Who are you?
Bloodninja: I've got blond hair, blue eyes, I work out a lot
Bloodninja:And I have a part time job delivering for Papa John's in my Geo Storm.
DirtyKate:You sound sexy.. I bet you want me in the back of your car..
Bloodninja:Maybe some other time. You should call up Papa John's and make an order
DirtyKate: Haha! OK
DirtyKate:Hello! I'd like an extra-EXTRA large pizza just dripping with sauce.
Bloodninja:Well, first they would say, "Hello, this is Papa John's, how may I help you", then they tell you the specials, and then you would make your order. So that's an X-Large. What toppings do you want?
DirtyKate:I want everything, baby!
Bloodninja:Is this a delivery?
DirtyKate:Umm...Yes
DirtyKate:So you're bringing the pizza to my house now? Cause I'm home alone... and I think I'll take a shower...
Bloodninja:Good. It will take about fifteen minutes to cook, and then I'll drive to your house.
**pause**
DirtyKate:I'm almost finished with my shower... Hurry up!
Bloodninja:You can't hurry good pizza.
Bloodninja:I'm on my way now though
**pause**
DirtyKate:So you're at my front door now.
Bloodninja:How did you know?
Bloodninja:I knock but you can't hear me cause you're in the shower. So I let myself in, and walk inside. I put the pizza down on your coffee table.
Bloodninja:Are you ready to get nasty, baby? I'm as hot as a pizza oven
DirtyKateooohh yeah. I step out of the shower and I'm all wet and cold. Warm me up baby
Bloodninja:So you're still in the bathroom?
DirtyKate:Yeah, I'm wrapping a towel around myself.
Bloodninja:I can no longer resist the pizza. I open the box and unzip my pants with my other hand. As I penetrate the gooey cheese, I moan in ecstacy. The mushrooms and Italian sausage are rough, but the sauce is deliciously soothing. I blow my load in seconds. As you leave the bathroom, I exit through the front door....
DirtyKate:What the f**k?
DirtyKate:You perverted piece of s**t
DirtyKate:F**k
Some moderators are al qaeda. We have loved ones two, you imperialist infidel!
Bloodninja: Wanna cyber? ...
MommyMelissa: Sure, you into vegetables?
Bloodninja: What like gardening an ****?
MommyMelissa: Yeah, something like that.
Bloodninja: Nuthin turns me on more, check this out
Bloodninja: You bend over to harvest your radishes.
(pause)
MommyMelissa: is that it?
Bloodninja: You water your tomato patch.
Bloodninja: Are you ready for my fresh produce?
MommyMelissa: I was thinking of like, sexual acts INVOLVING vegetables... Can you make it a little more sexy for me?
(pause)
Bloodninja: I touch you on your lettuce, you massage my spinach... Sexily.
Bloodninja: I ride your buttocks, like they were amber waves of grains.
MommyMelissa: Grain doesn't really turn me on... I was thinking more along the lines of carrots and zucchinis.
Bloodninja: my zucchinis carresses your carrots.
Bloodninja: Damn baby your right, this s**t is HOT.
MommyMelissa:
Bloodninja: My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love. My insides turn to celery as I unleash my warm and sticky cauliflower of love.
MommyMelissa: What the f**k is this madlibs? I'm outta here.
Bloodninja: Yah, well I already unleashed my cauliflower, all over your olives, and up in your eyes. Now you can't see. *****.
MommyMelissa: whatever.
bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don't know how long I can keep it ready for you.
j_gurli3: thats ok. ok i'm a japanese schoolgirl, what r u.
bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure.
j_gurli3: haha, ok lets go.
j_gurli3: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck.
bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory.
j_gurli3: haha, ok, u know that turns me on.
j_gurli3: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts.
j_gurli3: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They ******* charge your ***.
j_gurli3: stop, cmon be serious.
bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ***.
bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli3: thats it.
bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.
bloodninja: **** am I hard now.
There is another way of quickly uploading all your messages to Gmail (or any other service for that matter): The Mutt Email Client. Mutt has a feature that I haven't seen in any other email client, and that I wouldn't want to miss ever: Bouncing. That's similar to forwarding, except that the message stays completely unmodified - upon receiving, all the difference you see is an additional "Received:" entry in the mail header. Very cool, and extremely useful!
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Open source? Damn. I'd say grab a copy of Windows Server 2003, and Exchange, and set it up. Almost full Outlook functionality, and it's got a lot of those features.
Now, if there were just an M2-like webmail interface (I use Opera M2, and it's indexing capabilities are like GMail on steroids...)
Having your own domain and e-mail addresses. I've had at least 30 times the capacity of a gmail-box for several years now.
(And I didn't have to send nudie pics to get it.)
I don't consider Gmail ready, but it is great even with the afore-mentioned issues. Conversations rock, and search, while not as good as Mail, is quick and easy. Keyboard shortcuts and auto-fill email addresses add important features to webmail that I would normally only expect from a POP or IMAP email account.
I've got a couple gmail invites to give away, if anyone wants to try it out. Email me at phatpat@gmail.com.
thanks for the assist BoldAC. Glad to find another fan of the series. Here is another funny one that is unique... and totally reminds me of my college days.
support this funny stuff... gmail account invite to carotids@carotids.com... please, please.
<Kazz> Do vampires have anuses? Cause that's why I wouldn't let this kid
invade a vampire's anus in this RPG, right, I was GMing, and his character
was an Anus Shade, with the power to possess and control the anuses of
people and animals.. and I figured that vampires don't have anuses.
<Zaratustra> a vampire's anus is present, but non-working.
<Zaratustra> like a network card without the appropriate driver.
<Kazz> Wow. You're the biggest dork on Earth.
<Sharkey> And you're DMing an rpg with Anus Shades.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-7ceffa6bcc-f47ffd7 163
yup, i just got mine, im very excited... i think.... GEEKDOM!!!!!!
Just a quick note, the chance of getting a Gmail account on Gmail machine is one in 30000 on any given reload. It would take 20794 reloads to have just a %50 chance of getting a GMail account. If one downloads Opera and sets the reload on the gmail machine to every second, that's two weeks. Now, admittedly, one could be smarmy and open a whole host of opera windows reloading every second, but we don't even know if the reloading window would blow away the winning announcement.
On the other hand, one could spend much less time writing clever limericks in the hopes that someone will give them an account
There was a man without gmail
Whose VAC could tell quite the tale
his wife worked real hard
to stack the punch cards
but she died, and now he's in jail
cgenman@pobox.com
The ______ Agenda
Well hopefully it is not in beta for as long as Froogle was. That service wasn't upgraded from beta status for at least a year or so.
if you are interested don't post, send a mesage to: larry2kNOSPAM@NOSPAMmit.edu remove the NOSPAM text
Although I recently got the size bump from Yahoo I'm still dying to try out GMail's interface. If someone can spare an invite I solemnly swear to be as generous with any invites I get, thanks in advance!
hexagontk (at) yahoo.com
Jonah Hex
Horror & SciFi Erotic Nudes
Can I have one?
justm3@mailinator.com
(Yeah, I know this was probably a troll)
I wasn't trolling. I thought it was pretty clear that I was kidding. Makes me laugh...
But the madness for gmail accounts is amazing.
I'd guess that the real market for gmail is corporate email and the ability to track and recover correspondence over a long time-span. To be effective it has to be shaken out very thoroughly and that looks to be what Google is doing with it.
Send Gmail invites to: themaskedman@gmail.com
;-P
kthx.
If that was a fair 1d20000 (or 1d30000) on each reload, what are the chances that out of 11686984 throws, only 72 end up matching one particular number? It's obviously rigged.
If ya still have any extras toss one my way. Lord_Elderon@yahoo(nospam).com
send off an invite to spambait@ForgottenNewbies.com and i'll try to take advantage of it :D
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
I've got a bunch of extra invites.
email me with first name, last name, and email addy.
First come - - - First serve
while supplies last.
bcurtis@gmail.com
I got my invite a while back, a couple weeks. I've since given out (for free, of course) over 25 invites. Had I sold all of them, in hindsight I see, I could have made more than $200, perhaps much more in how they were selling back then. But I'm a nice guy. I say keep Gmail free.
OMFG GIMME
Alright - I'm too lazy to post my myriad of responses to many of hte above comments... so I'll just post once.
First - I feel sorry for the guy that mentioned he had some invitations. No doubt his gmail account's 1 gig limit is being tested by the torrent of email from eager slashdotter geeks desperate to get at one of his invitations.
Next issue.. For those that really just want a fat email box for free - I highly suggest going over to Spymac, or even Lycos - both of which offer 1 gig mailboxes. I personally hate ALL webmail, forgoing it for the sake of using Thunderbird. That being the case, I rarely experience the same problems with email services that other people do who prefer webmail. If you use an external mail program - spymac is great. If you prefer webmail... well, keep trying to get a gmail invite.
Some of the people are complaining about Spymac asking for lots of personal information. Am I the only one that has a fake name and address for use in sign-ups? When I was a teen, I was worried that companies would check my fake info, track me down, and pistol-whip me or something. Then, after a few times doing it, I realized that human eyes probably never actually see my fake information. My information is harvested, shared, then printed on junk mail ALL by computers. So, it's easy to get away with fake addresses. Although I feel sorry for whoever lives at 999 Mybunghole Lane, Redneck, GA 31337. They've probably gotten a TON of junk mail for "Joe Momma." But here I am sitting pretty, with all my free internet and email accounts. No secret police have come after me yet.
Lastly, I am pissed at the creator of that Gmail Machine, as well as the person who added it to slashdot for my weak mind to stumble upon. I already have two Gmail accounts - and here I am just reloading and reloading and reloading. I feel like an old woman in vegas at the slot machines... or a college girl clicking away at Diamond Mine/Bejewelled. It's mine-numbingly addictive. Damn you slashdot and Gmail machine... damn you....
Post it your e-mail if you want it.
You SimpleSimons that are playing down any kind of foul play by google are really fucking clueless you know that?
A) Do you really think Google is just giving you a gig of storage because they want to be your friend?
(If you answer YES, go to question B)
B) Do you really think that Google does not give a fuck about the content of your email?
(If you answer YES, go to question C)
C) Do you enter your real name and address on subscription websites ?
(If you answer YES, go to question D)
D) Do you ever wonder why telemarketers call you all the time?
(If you answer NO, go to question E)
E) Do you know the difference between a blowjob and and ice cream cone?
(If you answer NO go to question F)
F) Meet me for Ice Cream Saturday at the Baskin Robbins on the corner. I'll buy.
boycott slashdot February 10th - 17th check out: altSlashdot.org
A spare invite would be most appreciated. Are there any more out there? xmijitx (@) yahoo.com
ardustry
Someone didn't get invited.
Truly outstanding post and editing, I'm bookmarking this for future reference.
Sailors. Oh man!
So, I guess it's inevitable that someone's going to make a site that lets you send to GMail while avoiding it. Imagine checking your GMail and getting a message saying:
which would be a link to a web page which held the message for, say, two weeks. The service could be set up as a mail relayer, of sorts, where it would be easy to reply to GMail people. For example, the site could be, say, notgmail.com. Then, when replying to someone at GMail, you just add "not" to the address and the service would handle saving your message (only for two weeks, remember) and sending the real Gmail recipient the notice that they've got mail waiting.
I'm surprised that something like this isn't here already. Just imagine GMail's archives getting flooded with "You have received....".
All ISPs come with something called an e-mail account. Most of them allow you to store the e-mails on your computer getting around any limits. "Yes you google lets you search your entire e-mail." That is certainly a wow factor and one that almost made me want to go to g-mail, until I realised Thunderbird and Mozilla did the exact same thing. "Yes but google let's you have threads" which surprisingly enough, as does thunderbird and mozilla. "Yes but gmail let's you read e-mails anywhere" but I don't need that. I can have Thunderbird keep my e-mails in the e-mail server I use for however many days I want. Currently that's until I move it from my inbox folder (which I do when the information is no longer important and I only need it for archival purposes). I don't need archived e-mails except when I'm on my home computer. There were two things that I was excited about with gmail. Threads and the search function. But now that I can do both, I don't care anymore.
It seems to be under the wheels of the Slashdot effect (volatile hyperlinking all-right); while the google cache carries the page, there's no way of getting the file.
Thanks in advance.
Sailors. Oh man!
Someone send me an invite for Gmail cause I'm a cute girl and deserve one! :P
email me with complete name and email. First come, First serve while supplies last. antinio.solisNOSPAM@NOSPAMgmail.com Remove the NOSPAM text
Anyone else musing with the idea that gmail is about more than free webmail to the world? Maybe it is Google's shot at stopping spam...
I know, i must be some google fanboy, but maybe i am.
I'm just thinking that maybe the 'Report Spam' button saves to a central database. Once Gmail becomes very popular Google will have a very up to date list of the current spam and spammers.
Essentially farming us Gmail users for spam addresses, IPs', and language patterns.
They can then offfer out the constantly updated database as a (pay) service to anyone else.
They seem to do well with sorting large amounts of data for relevance..
Google owns Orkut, Blogger.com, the largest search engine on the 'net, and is now offering free, high quality web-based email accounts with a gig of storage. Except for a few lone voices, I haven't seen any serious discussion about why this huge corporation is spending so much resources on providing these services for free.
The advertising revenue couldn't possibly amount to a significant fraction of the costs involved with these services. The value must lie in the personal information that people are donating to Google, Inc.. What are their plans for it? They obviously plan to datamine it - but how will and how can it be used? What new knowledge can be generated by correlating and cross-referencing your orkut, blogger, gmail and google search information?
It is troublesome that it seems to be popular and hip to be totally unconcerned about privacy. Attitudes like "we have none anyways" seem to prevail, and its funny to criticize those who voice some concern as tinfoil-hat-black-helicopter-seeing schitzos. It looks like people have forgotten that privacy matters. Like many other companies that try to collect personal information, Google's privacy policy is subject to change at any time. This makes it almost meaningless! It is effectively the same as saying, "We respect your privacy right at this moment, so have complete trust in us. Tomorrow we might change our minds."
Here I am, a hardcore email user since...1986. I have sent more email to more people for a longer time than 99.9% of everybody, and I can't get a gmail invite inside of two months? Heck, I give one lecture per semester on the glories of Google. But what makes it extra-ironic is that I'm a psychology professor, and it now appears that my best chance to get an invite is to engage in unrewarded bar-press behavior until I get a lucky number. I should know better, but excuse me while I refresh this other page here a few thousand more times...
Babar
Come on now, if you're going to grovel, be creative!
There was a man without gmail
Whose VAC could tell quite the tale
his wife worked real hard
to stack the punch cards
but she died, and now he's in jail
One gig, two gigs or three
Gmail's the right size for me
Don't be upset
I read the usenet
all archived, from 1903
My Friendster, and his big gut
has been reclusive somewhat
Gmail requests
he won't address
I think that he moved to orkut
I could be rich, without a doubt
I found an unbeatable route
this Nigerian guy
wants a reply
but I can't with my inbox maxed out
My mailbox will always O flow
inflators, fellators, you know
I get lots of spam
Thanks to my mam
That woman named me Info
Anyone have a spare invite for a clever guy?
cgenman@pobox.com
The ______ Agenda
http://gmailmachine.mmgn.com/ I won my account :p
http://nng.audiodragon.net
mln_samah@hotmail.com :'(
I hate hotmail
Homonyms are fun!
You're driving your car, but they're riding their bikes there.
Hi, if any of you by any chance still have a gmail invite to spare you would make my day.. (seriously)
Too, not two. Dumb fucking sand nigger. Go blow yourself up. Unfortunately, your 72 virgins are all /.ers and male. (Redundancy alert...)
Some of us with Orkut accounts have been offered gmail accounts.
If you want an Orkut account, reply with your email, and I'll invite you.
Already, Yahoo has follow suit to compete with gmail by widening their mailboxes. 100MB isn't one gig, but it certainly gave me some space in my box. I think I'm beginning to agree that competition is best for the consumer... The numbers consume your soul. Oops! Did I just skip it by accident! Please save me and invite me at aldatur@yahoo.com Please. Really. I neeeeds it. My... precious...
I am currently accepting gmail invites from any kind soul willing to donate. Donations accepted at nickpubSPAM@SPAMimap.cc minus SPAMs.
Thanks
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I like cookies! If you like cookies too then I think you are cool! can you invite me to join gmail ? thanks man, I'll send you some cookies. tech@vozip.net
pr0n is better than Beer and better than cookies, pr0n is good 4 you but is not free as in free beer or free cookies.
Yeah, really bad idea. Much spam would ensue.
"Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them." -- David Brent
Mr. Jiggy-Fly, I have good news...
dethl@nmt.edu
Thanks in advance!
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
My email is my slashdot username @yahoo.ca
I put in a request for a Gmail account over a month ago, but haven't heard back from Google yet.
So, if anyone has an extra account, could you please send one my way?
Terry Evans
tevansNoSpam@sonici.com (remove the NoSpam obviously)
I got 1338 on the Gmail Machine, and they gave me a HOTMAIL account! So close....!
Best Buy can have you arrested
Personally, and I doubt I'm alone here, I'm sick of it.
Like a movie that's been so hyped up that I get pushed away by that alone, I don't give a fuck about gmail.
Please create a gmail category or whatever so I can uncheck it, thanks.
-- Note: If you don't agree with me, don't bother replying. I won't read it.
Any chance of anyone sending me an invite?
gmail@geocen.com
Thanks!
Gmail Invite
Username taken, please choose another one.
I have alerted the gmail team to this and they say they are working on it, but they can't fix it soon enough for me as I occasionally forget to delete this gmail generated text from my replies.
Im glad I saw that GMail Machine thing. I went there and reloaded about a hundred times and then I won! I thought I might miss it but when you win it tells you you won in bright yellow lettering. I never win anything. Now I wish it was money. DOH!
Anthony
Anthony Papillion
Advanced Data Concepts, Inc.
"Quality Custom Software and IT Services"
Why do people keep hyping the features of google? We can do all of that stuff on our computers for free with little security/privacy concerns.
I use OSX's mail ap to get all my mail from however many accounts, including my yahoo accounts. I can then search message content, from, subject whatever. Forever. On the privacy of my own machine. And since I have about 150gigs of free space at the moment, 1gig from google isn't a selling point.
When not on my own machine, I can use my isp provided webmail aps to view mail. But now that wireless access is so pervasive, many of us just carry our own computers with us wherever we go anyway. Gone are the days of dropping into a library when on the road to use their machines to check email: now we just flip open our laptops at the library and download our own. Webmail is just not necessary anymore. Wireless is killing the need for browser based aps like calendars, mail, and even banking info (just use quicken to download from all your accounts and view it one single ap instead of going to a bunch of webpages to see all your stuff).
In the first 3 minutes of the Gmail Machine, I won. I was so excited I couldn't help but hit refresh again. Needless to stay that stop button went smashing down, and whenevr I tried to enter my address in for my winning little piece of hapiness, I had a "File Not Found" message. Two hours later and a hand that doesn't work anymore, I haven't hit it again.
Add that to your userContent.css (works with Safari too):
#ad {
visibility: hidden ! important
}
Thank you, have a nice day.
Fact is, despite all concerns, Gmail *is* becoming wildly popular. Things are going at such a rate here that if anyone is deluded enough to not accept any email from a Gmail account, he's basically banishing himself from email in general.
More than mere navel gazing.
Will exchange launch codes for invite. Inquire within.
clickey.
More than mere navel gazing.
Has anyone actually tried the utilities listed in the original post? The lack of import and export options from gmail is a real limiting factor (I already have a lot of mail I'd like to search). What happens if/when google goes under? How do we extract our gigabyte? These utilities look very promising, but slashdotter stress-testing seems in order...
I was invited for a Gmail account yesterday, and it worked fine. Today, I cannot access Gmail anymore! It says 'Oops, unable to perform the requested operation, try again' or 'document contains no data'. I'm using Firefox 0.9 and I checked the 'don't ask my password for two weeks' option. I even tried with MSIE, didn't help. (By the way, although I haven't used MSIE for months, it somehow managed to get infected, I got popups from the moment I left the Control Panel and made it an IE window!) I guess it's still beta... (Gmail, not IE ;-))
I will graciously accept an invitation for a Gmail account from The first person to guess the color of my garage door or if they guess correctly whether or not I even have a garage.
- The GMail team says that the Full GMail (whenever that comes) will not be Opera compatible, but
- GMail Beta has limited functionality in Opera
- Firefox is better than Opera (I actually upgraded after getting my GMail invite... it's everything Opera is, with lower RAM hogging and smarter tabs. The different search extensions kick Opera's hinder. Thunderbird (seperate but integrated mail client) is nicer than M2 (not that I use my other email accounts any more)
Believe me, I thought I was a diehard Opera user until I started with Firefox. All of my bookmarks imported automagically. It's faster, free, and no Opera ad banner needs to be ignored/cracked.Although I took more like 40 tries, I still hit pretty quickly.
And I, too, still haven't gotten a code... Hoax?
Do you think Google will make a Gmail app just like they did with their search engine? That would be pretty neat. Maybe combine it with their search appliance. You plug this device into the corporate network, configure, and then all your users can enjoy Google seaching the intranet and have a nice webmail client with the same excellent searching.
Who knows, just a thought.
Andrew
Yess, you go do that -- and leave everyone else alone. Moron.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-85794dc1de-3703b33 3ff
This message will self-destruct in 3.2 seconds.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-85794dc1de-edd5265 aeb
First in best dressed.
works fine for me
I think I'm going to cry. I was trying the Gmail Machine lotto. . . I was hitting refresh so fast all I saw was a blink of a page with a big yellow font that said "Winner!" with a text entry box below it. Then 1/5 of a second later, I tapped my touch pad and the page refreshed. I think I need a moment of reflection.
also check this out:
http://www.floppymoose.com/
Just becuase you HAVE a hotmail account doesn't mean you USE it. All my personal e-mail goes to my own mailserver under my desk. The 7 or so hotmail accounts are just spam-catchers. Mmmmm...3 years virtually spam free.
Any why the hell would I let the fucktards on slashdot know my real e-mail address?
hey all, i keep getting new invites on a fairly regular basis, if you just head-on over to my blog, find the "GMail Invites" post and add a comment with some info as to why u want a gmail account and a valid email address (feel free to use creative obfuscation to protect yourselves from spam crawler bots).
I can't guarantee you an invite but your chances should be pretty good. I'll favor in that order (mostly), people who have a blog on blogger.com, people who have at least bothered to register with blogger.com to place comments, people I've marked as /. friends, people who've marked me as their friend, unless i change my mind :)
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Advertising in my inbox that I didn't ask for is Spam.
I find it funny that Google (and webmail in general) has gotten people to accept this as normal.
Ads relating to what I'm searching for is one thing. Ads relating to what my friend is telling me about is another.
Can't hurt, well, it could.. *imagines volumes of emails flooding in pertaining to viagra and other related drugs* Oh well. admin(at)intheoryforum(dot)com
admin(at)intheoryforum(dot)com
Thanks! :)
Google is giving out GMail invites like candy at the moment, you can get anywhere from 3-10 invites every other day or so (at least I do). Of course every invite you use is recorded, since it adds the inviters address to the invitees contact list automatically. With this by-invitation-only strategy they've managed to drum up an amazing amount of hype and discussion on blogs, mailing lists and message boards all over the net. Of course it also helps that GMail, in it's true Google-like fashion, is pretty damn good. That means there's a high demand for it, it's the latest in-thing and you don't want to be left out.
So, with everyone inviting their friends, who in turn invite their friends and so on, Google is sitting on a gold-mine that would make any data-miner drool. They've probably got the biggest social networking dataset ever compiled right now. I'm just thankful it's Google and not Hotmail or Yahoo. As someone else already said, the 1GB storage is just a gimmick, it's the Google brand that matters.
It's like deja vu all over again.
It's very, very efficient, by the way. You can give a text label so that you can flag recipients under a certain label (usually, 419 scammers involve another fictitious character, for instance, a lawyer). You can set a filter to set all incoming e-mail under that label.
What it doesn't do - or maybe I just can't figure it out yet - is set all existing e-mail to the set rules (filters).
Because they put all your labels in a convenient location, you're always looking at the same list of, say, 20 scambaits. It even tells you if there's new mail under that label.
Gmail is a revolution for 419 scambaiting, thanks to its mail management features.
So, in order to prevent company A from storing and potentially reading your e-mail, you're opting to let company B store it instead? What's to keep company B from reading the messages it has stored? And what's to keep company B from being ordered to hand over all the messages it has stored to some government agency?
Riddle me this, and riddle me that, who's being a big dumb asshat?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
>For those who still think email is secure I got news for you: Your email is already exposed in plain text on just about any server it is sent to.
So what - I don't care about any single email being exposed to someone's eyes. But I do worry if someone has access to ALL of my email all the time - I even wouldn't care if they would read it, but I do not like to be analyzed and profiled via content of my email.
>No human will ever read your email.
This is really a stupid argument - OF COURSE they won't because they can't possibly get enough humans to read gazillons of messages in millions of accounts!
It is impossible, it'd be too expensive and it wouldn't work because humans can't analyze huge amounts of data.
When will people realize that it is FAR WORSE that AI bots "read" (analyze, parse, whatever) your email because:
a) they don't "forget"
b) they can easily "read" all emails of all accounts
c) it is cost effective (essentially free) to use them for any and all purpose they see fit.
I'm not claiming they are doing bad things with it, but they certainly have all the tools they need.
So those who mind would probably prefer to keep their email on less creepy a place (one that doesn't analyze your contacts, URLs in your email and content of your messages to show you ads and whatnot).
In all honesty, if you have something that you don't want read by anyone, and don't want stored for eternity, then you probably shouldn't be emailing it at all.
Ender
PS. If you like this post and have a gmail invite, I'm still begging for one! ender|{at}|fearthepenguin|{dot}|net
Nothing to see here
If you have some invite left think about me:
oupsmail@bonbon.net
Thanks
In practise, ie. always, the allowed attachment size is much smaller than 10MB. 10MB is the limit to the size of the outgoing mail - ie. the size of the attachment AND the text after the attachment has been uuencoded or whatever is used.
They are in pre-IPO lockdown. Anyone on the inside or knows inside details CANNOT comment until after the IPO is finished.
So if we want an interview with the google people, which I think is a GREAT idea, we have to wait 'till after the IPO.
I would love to get one if possible :-)
Crypto1969@Comcast.Net
"I Fear not SPAM, for I wear SPAM resistant underpants!"
ERROR ERROR Sig too long Sig will now END.
... if you are posting stories to /.
Fuck you and your unwanted editorial.
-e-
For those who still think email is secure I got news for you: Your email is already exposed in plain text on just about any server it is sent to.
Mod up! This is an eye-opener! Thanks to this guy, I have discovered that encryption, in fact, DOES NOT EXIST!
Try this one on for size:
I've come to the resolve I've been beat
Looking for the simple word 1337
Don't think this one rhymes?
Try substituting minds
You have to be in the mode of geek speak
Please, if you give the parent poster an invite for his creativeness, can you consider me as well? Okay okay, I should have done something other than a limerick, but what can you do when you're pressed for time? You can contact me at gmailme at linuxathome com
Linux at home
John Kerry supporters, here's your chance:
/.er. I'll then suspend the Gmail offer (unless I've been awarded more invites in the meantime).
I'll give one Gmail invite to the person who provides 10 valid reasons why John Kerry should be president.
Here are my rules:
* Reasons must be pro-Kerry, not anti-Bush. Tell me about Kerry's policy proposals or legislative record that will help this country. Don't bash Bush, his administration, or his policies. This is your chance to state why Kerry should get the job, not why Bush shouldn't have it.
* Just the facts, please.
* If relying on statistics, back 'em up. Please link to your source, and make sure your source is reputable.
* I define "valid" reasons.
* When I find the post with 10 valid reasons, I'll reply to that post, and request an email from the
This isn't meant to start a Bush v. Kerry flame war; all I want is for a Kerry supporter to actually promote Kerry's policies, not criticize Bush's. I figure a Gmail invite might encourage some smart readers to participate in a respectful discourse. My apologies for taking the Gmail discussion off-topic.
I wrote a 2 minute script (perl and wget are our friends) and let it run overnight. Their server started out really speedy, then started getting laggy so I shortened wget's timeout to 60 seconds (900 seconds? please :)
:)
... over approximately 10 hours the script iterated just under 30,000 times before getting an invite, which averaged out 50 hits per minute for me. If you assume most of the heavy hitters had a similar script (maybe, maybe not) running for the same time period where the server got 20,000,000 hits, that means 666 scripters ;)
... only 1 process at a time, it gave the server a minute to respond, and it slept for 1 second between requests. No forked processes, no running as fast as it can. Did I defeat the "feel" of the process, sure, but someone had to be expecting it because there was nothing in the HTML that made this at all difficult. This means I would guess I could have gotten closer to 1 hit per second if I'd -tried- but there didn't seem like much point.
... it is /. where my behavior is unexplainable :)
During this run the chances went from 30,000:1 to 50,000:1 to 100,000:1
Results
NOTE: I made my script relatively friendly
I want to give a HEARTY congratulations for having a server with a dynamic page that took the load like a champ. No images had to help, but it was still pumping out >5K per request at 550-600 requests per second. Not an amazing feat technically, just good planning, but appreciated. I was quite surprised to see it had made it through the night (my invite came @ 8:30am, almost exactly when I woke to the thought of "hey, wonder if I got an invite?", maybe I accidentally invoked Telepathy::Broadcast).
And before someone goes "why did you waste your time for a freakin Gmail account", I spent 5 * the time needed to write the script to write this post
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
Kellen Flott
klf@flottfamily.com
--- If we knew half the things we shouldn't we'd stop wishing we knew it all
can anyone send me a gmail invite?
pagal@asia.com
Do you know how an individual with a 1Gb server space could develope its own personal 1Gb web mail?
for a gmail invitation(I'm tired of chocolate). navyb1ue2002@yahoo.com, thank you
1. On the Environment: Kerry has a 96% lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters based on his congressional voting record.
2. On Civil Rights: The NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign gave Kerry a 100% rating.
3. On Education: For the past 8 years, John Kerry has received a 100% rating from the National Education Association.
4. On a Woman's Right to Choose: Planned Parenthood and NARAL gave Kerry a 100% rating.
5. On Labor Rights: The AFL-CIO has given John Kerry a 91% lifetime rating, including a 100% rating in 2003.
6. On Animal Rights: The Humane Society and Fund for Animals reports that Kerry supported eight out of the nine most recent bills promoting animal welfare.
7. Kerry has a long record of public service to this country. He has extensive experience in both domestic and international affairs. He worked as a prosecutor for one of the country's largest counties, served as Lieutenant Governor for two years, and has served as a U.S. Senator since 1984. As Senator, he has served for 18 years on the Foreign Relations Committee, 6 years on the Intelligence Committee, and is the Ranking Democrat on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
8. Kerry's "100 Days to Change America" plan, outlining what he will focus on in his first 100 days in office, is great.
9. Teresa Heinz-Kerry will also be a real asset to this country. She has been deeply involved with a number of progressive issues including the environment, children, women's issues, and health care and wellness. She has been an outspoken advocate for human rights and a strong supporter of the arts.
10. Kerry supports:
* Aggressively promoting conservation, renewable energy sources, and increased energy efficiency to reduce both global warming emissions and our dependence on foreign oil
* Reducing toxics in our communities
* Reinvigorating the Superfund cleanup program
* Improving our parks and protecting our public lands
* Protecting low income communities from environmental hazards
* Strengthening and enforcing our Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act
* Addressing global warming emissions through a combination of innovative programs that will drive technology change and create jobs
* Addressing the exploitation of marine resources around the globe
* Addressing the growing crisis of fresh water shortages around the globe
* Reducing traffic congestion and sprawl
* Strong job creation including creating 500,000 jobs by investing in renewable energy sources, such as ethanol, solar, and wind
* Rejoining the international community
* Programs that promote democracy and respect for human rights
* Comprehensive election reform
* Arms control and non-proliferation measures
* Defining a global security strategy on terrorism that is "collective, not imperial, inclusive not exclusive, and cooperative not unilateralist"
* Rolling back Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and re-investing in education and healthcare.
* Expanding health care coverage to nearly 95 percent of Americans – including nearly all children
* Assuring high quality health care by including a strong enforceable patients' bill of rights, reducing medical errors, and ensuring safe staffing levels for nurses
* Protecting Medicare and Social Security
* Fully funding our public education system
* Creating programs to increase access to a college education for more Americans
* Providing services to children such as Head Start and child care
* Improving child abuse prevention and treatment programs
* Expanding our nation's hate crime law
* The Employment Nondiscrimination Act
* Affirmative Action
* The Equal Rights Amendment
* Closing the pay gap between men and women
* Title IX
* Protecting workers' rights to organize and join a union
* Raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation
* Improving workplace health and safety
* Ending the practice of racial profiling
* Creating immigration policies that are fair and safe
* The Americans wit
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
Despite your post, there's nothing invalid or wrong with making a choice based on the "lesser of two evils" concept. I suspect that many of Kerry's votes will come from people choosing to pick the "not-so-great" option over the "really-really-terribly-horribly-bad" option... And that's OK.
I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
Best Buy can have you arrested
People who are requesting for e-mails to send invites should follow neverkevin's example and post the links in your journals, better and no spam.
wow, modding me offtopic the day after i make the comment? jesus man, get a fucking life
For those of you who are interested. It's called G-Mailto.
It is really simple. It associates mailto: html links with GMail. So when you see a link like this on the web:
rabidsquirrel21@hotmail.com
You can click it and have the GMail compose window open up instead of something like Outlook Express that doesn't work with GMail. If you are not logged in to GMail it will bring you to the login screen and then redirect you to the Compose Page.
I'm using it right now on my Windows XP machine and it works perfectly. Supposedly works fine on Win9x/ME as well.
It's free, open-source, comes with an installer/uninstaller, and you can always switch back and forth between using it from your control panel. Under Internet Options > Programs Tab > Email. After you install G-Mailto, it will be in that list along with any other mail program you use.
Anyway, if you're interested, I put it up on my site:
http://www.rabidsquirrel.net/G-Mailto
Here's my script for continuously refreshing the page and watching for 1337 in the results. No guarantee this will work at all since I don't know what is actually required when you get the winning page. I just dump the winning html into a file and hopefully it can be used to claim the prize somehow. As of sometime today I don't seem to be able to access gmailmachine at all anymore, either I'm blacklisted for running this script or the site is down.e ($found eq () ) { ... ");
-------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
whil
$count++;
print ("Reloading gmailmachine $count
@out = qx/w3m -cookie -dump_source http:\/\/gmailmachine.mmgn.com/;
foreach (@out) {
if (/font-size: 58px;\">(\d+)/) {
print $1,"\n";
if ($1 eq "1337") {
$found=1;
open(OUTFILE, ">results.html") || print ("error: could not open results file\n");
print OUTFILE @out;
close(OUTFILE);
print @out;
}}}}
...given how in Australia they have to use special hard disks which spin the opposite way around because of the Coriolis effect.
Good job, BrakzOrz, please drop me a line at starbird at gmail dot com and I'll hook you up. I disagree with nearly everything you wrote, but I appreciate the effort!
what's their spam filtering like?
They use SpamCop. I simply don't see spam (granted, I don't splatter my @-address all around nonetheless). Occasionally a new spamming technique is introduced and a couple leak through. The last spam I got was a couple months ago; someone broke the Hotmail Turing test & I got a spam from RANDOMLETTERS@hotmail.com. They have a web page to blacklist keywords & addresses in addition to that but I have never bothered. As far as I know they don't have a way to look at your deleted spam and check for false positives, but I don't think that has ever happened to me.
The webmail client is Squirrel Mail and is nicely configurable. I didn't mention before, you can do SMTP after POP; but the time window is only a couple minutes and it doesn't work at all from China (I guess they have China blacklisted for that feature...I had to send through the webmail on my little Psion when I was there.) Oh, and they have a vacation auto-responder (for those who don't impulsively check email from wherever they are).
I could use one... mixu78 @ jippii . fi
I would like to have an invite too.
bassfreak@spymac.com
Thanks in advance
I would like an invite too. bassfreak@spymac.com Thanks in advance.
First, this guy claims that his gmail account was hacked therefore couldn't send out invites.
Then it was pointed out that he should get an email of the new password and he sent an update stating that there was massive cheating (what did you expect people to cycle through 100,000 web pages):
UPDATE: Because of the massive ammount of cheating as of recent (over 40 people) gmail machine will have to close its doors for longer then expected, I hope to come back with a much more secure site. Because of the massive ammount of cheating that has occured since the update to the new gmail machine I will be unable to send codes out to anyone who has won after the site update. I am extremly sorry to those of you who won fare and square, but I will not risk giving codes to people who cheated to win, or let their friends win thru their cheating ways. Please note, gmail machine will return, but in the meantime thanks for the support.
Take a nap well we move the site over to a new server and recode some things to increase security.
This guy ultimitley didn't have but a handful of invites and was overwhelmed. He couldn't let everyone know this because the spotlight was on him.