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Gmail Goes Public
An anonymous reader writes "Google has apparently given the green light for Google's e-mail (Gmail) to be open to the general public." From the registration page: "As we make room for more Gmail users, we want to first extend invitations to Google users. We're still working to make Gmail better, so for now, we're just inviting a small number at random. Looks like that's you! We're really excited to share Gmail with you and we hope you like it." Observed at the P-I Buzzworthy Blog as well.
Thanks, but I've already received about 1,000 invitations.
There goes my best pick up line.
I Want To Believe
about time, I'm sick of friends begging invites off me....
Yeah, they really made huge advances in e-mail technology and turned it into something special.
BTW. Can anyone tell me how do I turn off my sarcasm tag?
Now if only we could turn "Ask Slashdot" into "Ask Google" we would be set!
Monstar L
For the past few days while using my GMail account, I've been getting Server Busy errors. This has been happening both when logging into my account as well as actions within the account (sending email for instance).
Nothing anywhere near the frequency as my old Hotmail account, but I guess they're still ramping up their userbase slowly so as to avoid this type of thing.
As a side note, I have 49 Vintage GMail invites currently and will sell them for $1,000 each.
I'm a big tall mofo.
Everyone who wants a gmail account has one. I still have 50 invites left untouched.
Everyone who wants to know that everyone who wants a gmail account has one, knows. There are 50 posts saying so.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe that I have found and anti-Google Blashphemer in our midst!
Please fix the interface so that replies do not top post. (Yes, I did submit this to Google when I first discovered it).
Bottom posting is for grizzled usenet hippies.
LOL, each time you post this message in a reply to a post in this story, it's modded +5 ;-)
see how many you can get!!
GMail definitely needs to stay in Beta. It has a long way to go before it is as good as my hotmail.
With hotmail, I got hundreds of fantastic e-mails offering me all sorts of fantastic merchandise EVERY DAY. With GMail I only get a few, they need to work on that.
Also, their ads aren't nearly as effective as they could be. They need big flashing banners that just implore you to click on them like hotmail. I can hardly even notice GMails ads. They have a lot of work to do
Not always. But in case you do need an account, you can get one at the GMail invite spooler. It has almost 500k invites available.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I think that that was the point. Google was trying to capitalize on the word-of-mouth thing to build up their user base. By the end, they put a little form field box on my GMail page and told me that I could invite 50 of my closest friends.
Ummm... yeah.
That's like when you see those cubic zirconium rings advertised on TV, and they say, "There's a strict limit of five per caller!" (It always makes me want to call and order six, just to see if they'd do it. They probably would.)
For higher rates you need to be invited.
Or just send me your email address and let me finally use up my 100 mojillion invites that nobody wants.
I promise your email address will not become inundated with pornographic spam.
Maybe just penis enlargement ones.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
POP3 is poor compaired to IMAP, I keep getting dupes down because GMail doesn't support unique message numbers.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
You get 24MB more with the 1GB deal... You should probably click on that one...
My Systems
YES!!! > Is it really all that irritating? >> It reverses the flow of conversation and makes relating >> parts of the message to the reply difficult. >>> Why? Outlook and most other email clients top post. >>>> Top posting. >>>>> What is the biggest email sin/heresy/faux pas?
Do you like Japanese imports?
Actually, the joke goes:
YES!!!
> Is it really that irritating?
>> It reverses the flow of conversation and makes relating
>> reponses to their originating comments difficult.
>>> Why? Outlook and so many other clients default to that.
>>>> Top posting; it's absolute email heresy.
>>>>> What is the worst faux pas to commit in email?
Do you like Japanese imports?
as i posted on my blog after Google Maps came out, here's my Google world takeover timeline:
present: images.google.com, local.google.com, gmail.google.com, maps.google.com, news.google.com, blogger.com, et al
2006-2007: dating.google.com, jobs.google.com, groceries.google.com, voice.google.com, tv.google.com
2008-2009: dna.google.com, wherearemykeys.google.com, INeedToPerformAnEmergencyTracheotomyOnMyselfHowDoI DoThat.google.com
2010-2011: brain.google.com, LSD-over-IP.google.com, RealPhysicalSexSomehowContainedEntirelyInAURL.goog le.com, peaceOnEarth.google.com
2012-END: maps.hyperspace.google.com, quarks.google.com, beamMeUp.google.com, tomorrow.news.google.com, singularity.google.com
"What thou shalt not, I shalt did!" -Bart Simpson