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it is google's mail service...it is still in beta so it is not open to the general public...you have to be invited. Many of us are crossing our fingers hoping to run across an invite...others are lucky enough to get one. Posts: 1901 | Registered: May 2004
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A large part of the big deal is getting a good username as opposed to bob57392.
Another part is geek points, which are often attached to longevity at certain things -- a low slashdot member number, a character that's been around from the beginning on Everquest, and now a beta gmail membership all have varying degrees of geekitude attached to them.
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Psst, tom, I think it has to do with the extra large storage, and the fact that its features are better than many/most/all email clients (depending on what you consider better). Plus, you gain high speed access (no imap synchronization) while still having a (very) well backed up version.
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I don't understand what the big deal is. If you have a POP3 account, you can just download the mail to your comp. with a program like outlook(express). I don't understand why a webmail service would be preferable. I hate webmail.
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Now all you need is an orkut invite, peter.
Webmail sucks in terms of UI, and if you're into PGP then webmail is not really a viable option. However, for someone like me who wants to be able to access the same email account from work and my apartment without synchronization overhead, webmail is pretty much what there is.
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Ah, yes, I did not think about that. I only use my e-mail from home, so I guess that I do not hate yo worry about that.
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Again, I have a GB inbox with pop/smtp service for free already, without the hassle of waiting for a Gmail invite or whatever, but I found http://gmailmachine.mmgn.com/ that for those who might be interested in the possibility. Not to mention hitting refresh like it's going out of style is pretty common, here. >_>
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Part of it is also interest in the ways gmail organizes your mail. It shows you a "conversation" or thread of emails when you read a particular email, showing you the context. It also supports searching all your emails for keywords, which many people find helpful.
It's pretty slick and cool. If you want a gmail account, it's reasonably easy to get one using gmailswap which I posted in a procrastination link a few days ago.
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Gmail swap worked for me! I got lucky and found a guy giving away free invites on my first page load. Now to wait for the invites that I can give out...
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I haven't gotten any invites yet. I heard a rumor that you only get them if you use the account a lot, which doesn't bode well for me. I check every day, but I've only sent/received about 5 emails so far.
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I have an account, they've upped the # of invites lately. I also sent myself an invite (ssssshhhhh!), and secured myself the username clever.dan I'm hoping to nab another HR email in the future.
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I am crossing my fingers for an invite...I now have a blogger account, and supposedly they give them to blogger users...but I have not gotten one yet.
I will be posting another Joe Schmoe 2 review tonight, so maybe that will trigger google to give me an invite.
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STN, what was all that "give me an invite or I'll shoot you" talk from a couple days ago? Hmm?
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I totally whored myself out for an account and it totally worked! The guy didn't make me go through with my offer either. He just found it amusing enough to give me a free invite.
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I'm still wondering if I'll get a nasty letter from Cox later about another gmail site I was working on when I found the gmail swap site.
There's some sort of contest that if you match a random number, you get a free invite. Since I've got Firefox (and have uber-l33t tabbed browsing), I loaded up 150 tabs and kept refreshing them every few seconds. I gave up after 5,000 hits on the site without getting the number (but I had a few that were close).
I guess I'll have to start pumping mail through it in order to get lots of invites (and yes, I'm going to be greedy and give another to myself ).
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It's not that hard folks. I BS'd my way into earning 3 free invites from 3 different people in less than 24 hours.
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Funny that ever since the invite frenzy came up, no one is whining about the ad/privacy issues.
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