Gmail invites- come and get'em
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Joined: May 2004
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From: Mesa, AZ -Gilbert & Univ.
Ok, google started an email service, they are calling it Gmail (well, untill the patent office says otherwise). it's main attractant is that you get a gig worth of email storage, so you can archive everything you want, and are able to search your old emails. You can read more about it at Gmail.com. Right now it is still in it's beta stages (not 'officialy' open to the public), to get an account you need to get an invitation to do so, and the folks who are running things over there are being very generous, and are allowing those of use who are already members invite quite a few more people. So, heres the gyst of it all.
Gmail = Email service provided by google, with 1 gig of space to hold your email.
in it's beta stages, so to use it you need to be "invited" to do so. I can "invite" 12 people to use this service. It is free.
Gmail = Email service provided by google, with 1 gig of space to hold your email.
in it's beta stages, so to use it you need to be "invited" to do so. I can "invite" 12 people to use this service. It is free.
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Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Houston (Sugar Land), TX
Shawn- just sent my email request. Thanks.
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Junior User
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 76
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From: Houston (Sugar Land), TX
Got it, and signed up! I appreciate it Shawn. I've been wanting to get Gmail since I heard about it.
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From: Kalispell, Mt.
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks here. I get so much junk mail now that I had to sign up for Postini Spam filtering through my ISP. They also scan your mail for viruses before it even gets close to your computer, so I now have double protection. I also use yahoo mail, but seldom, and the junk mail there is outrageous! All I need is another account for the Spammers to find.
Posting Guru
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: central TX
Anybody having privacy or other concerns can read this:
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
I've had a yahoo account for quite a while w/ no problems. All spam goes into a bulk folder (except maybe 1 or 2 a month), and I've never had a good email sent to the "bulk" folder.Sure I might get 50 junk emails a day in it, but they're just a click away froming being gone. Not only that but storage was recently increased. Is this not the case for most? If you have spam coming in your inbox mark it as such and you shouldn't have any more probs.
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
I've had a yahoo account for quite a while w/ no problems. All spam goes into a bulk folder (except maybe 1 or 2 a month), and I've never had a good email sent to the "bulk" folder.Sure I might get 50 junk emails a day in it, but they're just a click away froming being gone. Not only that but storage was recently increased. Is this not the case for most? If you have spam coming in your inbox mark it as such and you shouldn't have any more probs.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jan 2001
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From: S. Mississippi
I've yet to notice ads or anything else in my inbox from emails or anything else from google.
If i have something fairly sensitive to relay to someone, i can take that information offline and not have to really worry about it.
If i have something fairly sensitive to relay to someone, i can take that information offline and not have to really worry about it.
Posting Legend
Joined: Sep 2001
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The Gmail service has raised many privacy concerns. From what I have heard they scan your email and use the data to send ads to you (or direct popups and banners) and sell to their advertisers. That is how they/you are paying for the service, nothing is free. We have ads here to support the site but we don't scan your email or posts and give(sell) the data to advertisers.
I have hundreds of email addresses to use and multi GB of storage on my hard drive. Granted I can't access my hard drive from anywhere. I can access my email from anywhere.
I have hundreds of email addresses to use and multi GB of storage on my hard drive. Granted I can't access my hard drive from anywhere. I can access my email from anywhere.
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Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Oak Harbor, OH
ALL the "free" email services do this, well most I can only think of one that doesn't. The internet is "public domain" so anything private does not belong on any server (that's a computer) other than the one at your house, or office. So if you don't want your emails scanned, spammed, or otherwise abused call your ISP and have a spam filter turned on and only use that account. For anyhing that needs a secure transmission I suggest snail mail, in a concrete envelope.