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Squeeky
2004-06-20, 02:46 AM
"Holla"

Do not ever do that again. Understood?

Mushnator
2004-06-20, 02:49 AM
Do not ever do that again. Understood?

Only Hamma has the proper ebonics level to say that. :lol: :lol:

Squeeky
2004-06-20, 02:51 AM
Only Hamma has the proper ebonics level to say that. :lol: :lol:

:lol: :love:

SDM
2004-06-20, 03:05 AM
Fledgling Gmail hits the geek spot
Enthusiasts barter to get in now
Pilot offers flight over CN Tower



DANA FLAVELLE
BUSINESS REPORTER

Some people will do anything to be among the first on their block with a Gmail account.


The new Internet e-mail service from Google Inc. is so popular people are paying to get in on the limited test version now of what will be a free, unlimited service later this year.


Since Google, an Internet search engine specialist, announced April 1 it was expanding into the e-mail business, some people have paid as much as $70 U.S. through the Internet auction site eBay to buy Gmail accounts from people who got them for free from the company.


Others are offering to swap an intriguing mix of products and services in exchange for a Gmail account, from personally re-enacting an episode from Star Trek to a first edition copy of the sci-fi novel Dune.


Toronto's Stephen Thomson, a student pilot and accomplished pianist, made one of the most valuable pitches: A free flight over the CN Tower (or landmark of your choice) plus a musical performance at your wedding (or any other occasion), a combination worth $300, in his estimation.


Within five hours of posting his bid on gmailswap.com, a free swap site not affiliated with Google, Thomson had received a Gmail invite from "an incredibly trusting person" named Lisa. It was unclear when or if Lisa planned to collect from him, Thomson said in a telephone interview yesterday.


But why the frantic rush to join a potentially "buggy" test version of a service that will be easier to access � and presumably smoother to use � after the public version launches later this year?


Thomson said he was motivated by the desire to beat out his buddy, a committed computer user who'd let him in on the cool factor attached to owning an early Gmail account.


Plus, he wanted an e-mail address free of the underscores, backslashes and numbers later adopters get stuck with because the good names have all been taken by then.


Sean Michaels, a 22-year-old university student who created gmailswap.com, says there are two other factors at work. Google has a cult-like following in the tech community, where it's seen as the anti-monopolist, and a lot of devotees want to support its efforts to dethrone Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail as the leading e-mail service.


"People think Gmail is going to be the e-mail standard of the future, that it's going to become what Hotmail is now, and they want to have a good address, one that shows they got in early," Michaels said.


Plus, Gmail comes with a staggering 1 gigabyte of storage space, more than 100 times what other free e-mail services offer. So much the average user would never have to delete another e-mail in a lifetime.


Michaels created gmailswap.com, where people can trade anything they want for a Gmail account, after noticing that limited access to the test version of the service was creating a black market for the accounts.


As is common in computer industry circles, Google was ironing out the remaining bugs in its new service by inviting a select group of users to test it out.


Michaels wasn't among them but says he received a Gmail invitation from a reader.


Since mid-May, when he created the site, more than 20,000 people have posted requests for Gmail accounts, he says. He doesn't know how many have actually succeeded in getting one.


But he is seeing signs that Google, already the Web's leading search engine company, knows another good thing when it sees one. The company has lately been issuing many more Gmail invitations through existing account holders.


Michaels has seen the impact on the value of Gmail accounts available for sale on eBay, he said. They've dropped to about $10 this week from $70 three weeks ago.

Jaged
2004-06-20, 05:30 AM
Could someone send me an invite to [email protected]? I already have an account, but it has been a long ass time and they aren't sending me any invites. I need an invite for my dad.

Ivan
2004-06-20, 10:41 AM
I still have yet to get Invites to give out? Anyone know why?

YankeeDoodle
2004-06-20, 11:09 AM
LOL! Thats why I put it in quotes. My friend say it often and I'm trying to get em off it...

ControlledBurn
2004-06-20, 11:18 AM
I gave my last invite to my little brother deployed in Iraq. I realized that since he cannot check his hotmail regularly, and he gets more spam than he knows what to do with, that a gmail account would be perfect for him.

Jennyboo
2004-06-20, 11:22 AM
Still havent gotten my invites ...getting to be a pain in my ass :P~:love:

SDM
2004-06-20, 01:59 PM
I still have yet to get Invites to give out? Anyone know why?
Same here.:(

Dharkbayne
2004-06-20, 02:13 PM
I think they stopped giving 'em out. Either that or they accidentally gave them all to Squeeky. It's going public soon anyways.

ZeusCali
2004-06-20, 02:17 PM
I think they stopped giving 'em out. Either that or they accidentally gave them all to Squeeky. It's going public soon anyways.
are you aware of an announced date for this public realease?thx

Diviant
2004-06-20, 03:12 PM
Pfft, that's ghey


I wan't Gmail!

Triggar
2004-06-20, 06:21 PM
I think you have to use the account regularly to get invites - Martyr and I just send one-word emails back and forth, and we both got our invites a day later. Then they just keep coming in :)

ZeusCali
2004-06-20, 09:02 PM
I think you have to use the account regularly to get invites - Martyr and I just send one-word emails back and forth, and we both got our invites a day later. Then they just keep coming in :)
i can just see the google recorded conversations now:

squeeky: porn?
SDM: Buttsechs?

repeat that 10 times and it explains the sudden influx of passive creation of invites in said person (non the later)'s cache.
AKA
dhey do dat 10 times and it show why they be gettin' so **** invitess. :rofl:

SDM
2004-06-20, 09:11 PM
i can just see the google recorded conversations now:

squeeky: porn?
SDM: Buttsechs?

repeat that 10 times and it explains the sudden influx of passive creation of invites in said person (non the later)'s cache.
AKA
dhey do dat 10 times and it show why they be gettin' so **** invitess. :rofl:
What planet are you from? How long is the journey to Earth? Are you homesick being this far from your home planet?

ZeusCali
2004-06-20, 09:17 PM
What planet are you from? How long is the journey to Earth? Are you homesick being this far from your home planet?
1cannot be pronounced
2not explainable in your terms of distance
3yes slightly, i miss the food

Diviant
2004-06-21, 11:34 AM
Triggar, send me one. E-mail is a few posts up...maybe page before.

EDIT Nvm, just checked my mail, thanks Jen! <3

Triggar
2004-06-21, 11:50 AM
Sorry dude, I'm lazy :p

Jennyboo
2004-06-21, 01:19 PM
no problem Diviant :D

Triggar
2004-06-21, 04:42 PM
Jackson, Zodiac, Paragon - invites sent :)

WritheNC
2004-06-21, 11:15 PM
I would like to give it a go, but it is not so urgent, so I can wait until others get theirs first.

[email protected]

Corrosion
2004-06-21, 11:31 PM
Writhe, sent.

321
2004-06-21, 11:32 PM
Just got my account today it rocks especially conversations.

Zodiac
2004-06-21, 11:50 PM
Jackson, Zodiac, Paragon - invites sent :) :love:

RuskiVodka
2004-06-22, 06:53 AM
If anyone still have an invite they care to share if possible to make one for me, though no rush.

E-mail - [email protected]

Greatly appreciated :)

Corrosion
2004-06-22, 04:11 PM
If anyone still have an invite they care to share if possible to make one for me, though no rush.

E-mail - [email protected]

Greatly appreciated :)
Sent.

Flashingfish
2004-06-22, 07:41 PM
My friend would really like an account and I figured at least one person here would have a spare invite. For some reason I don't have any invites yet so yeah. Here I am :D

Please send one to [email protected] if you have any spare :)

Madcow
2004-06-22, 11:03 PM
My friend would really like an account and I figured at least one person here would have a spare invite. For some reason I don't have any invites yet so yeah. Here I am :D

Please send one to [email protected] if you have any spare :)

Done.

Ivan
2004-06-22, 11:43 PM
I got a few invites now.

OneManArmy
2004-06-23, 12:02 AM
oh snap hook me up. double rations of butt sechs for you.

Ivan
2004-06-23, 12:11 AM
oh snap hook me up. double rations of butt sechs for you.
E-mail?

OneManArmy
2004-06-23, 12:16 AM
[email protected]

VashTheStamped
2004-06-23, 12:22 AM
can i get an invite?

[email protected]


thanks :)

Ivan
2004-06-23, 01:35 AM
OneManArmy and VashTheStamped invites have been sent.

VashTheStamped
2004-06-23, 03:53 AM
you rock ivan, you seriously rock. :cool: :cheers:

ZeusCali
2004-06-23, 07:09 AM
can i get a lil' gmail lovin' sent my way? [email protected]

Squeeky
2004-06-23, 08:11 AM
Vash, quit bumping Invites.

He gets one from Ivan, and then one from me, which he took and used for his cousin :huh:

lmcampos
2004-07-19, 11:34 AM
Hello, everyone! Please, if someone still has invitations left, can someone please mail me one? My name is Leticia de Campos, and my e-mail is [email protected].
Thank you soooooo much!

Infernus
2004-07-19, 11:36 AM
Hello, everyone! Please, if someone still has invitations left, can someone please mail me one? My name is Leticia de Campos, and my e-mail is [email protected].
Thank you soooooo much!

Sent.

lmcampos
2004-07-19, 11:41 AM
:love: :groovy: :rofl: Sent.
Man, you reeeeeaaallly rock!!!!! Thanks a lot! Love you! Write me!
Bye!
Let�cia

Hezzy
2004-07-19, 11:41 AM
Please don't bump old reaking-of-cheese threads.

Necromancy is NOT cool

Fragmatic
2004-07-19, 11:47 AM
Necromancy is NOT cool

:(

That's my summer plans out the window then :(

Infernus
2004-07-19, 11:49 AM
Please don't bump old reaking-of-cheese threads.

Necrophilia is NOT cool

Well damn what am I supposed to do now?

UncleDynamite
2004-07-19, 11:57 AM
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Superwizard4/Necro.jpg

Triggar
2004-07-19, 12:19 PM
Who in farking hell is Leticia de Campos?

I SMELL CHICANERY!

Biohazzard56
2004-07-19, 08:57 PM
Surely there is enough love for bio to get one invite. :D

[email protected]

SDM
2004-07-19, 09:28 PM
Surely there is enough love for bio to get one invite. :D

[email protected]
Sorry Bio, you missed it. We only give them to complete strangers now.

Infernus
2004-07-19, 09:29 PM
Surely there is enough love for bio to get one invite. :D

[email protected]

sent

SDM
2004-07-19, 09:32 PM
I have none left, and they aren't sending me anymore it seems.