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Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:31 AM
Not exactly stunning to see Gmail give aways these days..
but
W H A T T H E F U C K? Let's do it anyway.
I've got 50, first come first serve!

EDIT:
Q: But Archangel, what is this supposed glorious Gmail you speak of?
A: HAHA! Click this link for details (https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail%3Fu i%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl)
Q: What do I have to do to receive a Gmail account?
A: PM me with you current email addy(i hope it doesn't get too crazy) and you should get a Gmail invite rather quickly. Don't worry, I don't plan on spamming your email.
Q: Why do I want Gmail? Is it free?
A: Go to the link above for all questions concerning Gmail.

oh'tay, i 'ave to pee!

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:32 AM
Gmail?

JB22
23rd March 2005, 12:33 AM
What??? :? :? :?

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:37 AM
You guys seriously don't know what Gmail is?
Wow.
Google + email = teh winner!

Gmail (https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail%3Fu i%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl)

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:40 AM
So whats your point?

JB22
23rd March 2005, 12:40 AM
I still dont know what youre talking about with the giveaways and first come first serve and 50 and all of that...

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:43 AM
The point is this.

I have
fifty gmail accounts
to give away
no strings attached.
first come
first server.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:44 AM
So theyre not free in the first place? Why are they so good? Isnt it just like email?

JB22
23rd March 2005, 12:45 AM
do they normally cost something??? what comes with them...I'm sorry...i guess I dont get it :?

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:46 AM
No worries.

I'll update my original post so it makes a bit more sense.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:47 AM
Gmail, what will they think of next??? Fmail???? :roll:

JB22
23rd March 2005, 12:49 AM
wow...shane...you may be the funniest man alive :roll: :neut:

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:51 AM
Why thankyou JB, you've just made my day/night :D

Thought Pro
23rd March 2005, 12:53 AM
You guys are out of the loop.

Gmail is by invite only.

It's 1 gig of space.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:53 AM
No offence but it looks a bit poo. Just like email with a shit USP to try and make people buy it :?

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:55 AM
Gmail, what will they think of next??? Fmail???? :roll:
How about CCMail? :D

JB22
23rd March 2005, 12:56 AM
what the hell...I'll give it a try...so how do I get my email to you??? If you click on my name...it will give you the option to email me...but whatever works for you man.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:56 AM
Lets not get ahead of ourselves now... lets wait for Fmail first.

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:57 AM
TP, I'm digging the spoofy text under your avatar. :lol:
What did Artee think of that?

Ordo Ferrum
23rd March 2005, 12:57 AM
Trust me on this one guys, Gmail is the way forward, ive had an account for nearly 6 months now its fanfuckingtastic the way it works and everything. Plus the messages you get in the background on the GUI are funny as fuck.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 12:58 AM
Go on then Angel, if you click on my name you should get an option to send me an email. Cheers x

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 12:59 AM
What a durn minute...Can we even PM on these forums? :puke:

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:00 AM
Dont know but you can view profiles and click on 'email this person' or whatever it is and their email addy will come up.

JB22
23rd March 2005, 01:01 AM
I'm not sure if you saw my request...so I'm gonna be a bastard and ask again...just cuz I dont want to get lost in the old posts...if you click on my name you can email me, or have me send it to you...sorry for sounding like I'm begging...I just have no way of knowing if you saw my last post...BUT HEY!!!1 Thanks man....very kind of you :D

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:02 AM
Go on then Angel, if you click on my name you should get an option to send me an email. Cheers x

Invite sent
49 Gmail invites remaining.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:02 AM
Cheers sexy

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:03 AM
I'm not sure if you saw my request...so I'm gonna be a bastard and ask again...just cuz I dont want to get lost in the old posts...if you click on my name you can email me, or have me send it to you...sorry for sounding like I'm begging...I just have no way of knowing if you saw my last post...BUT HEY!!!1 Thanks man....very kind of you :D

Sorry didn't see it. Thanks for reminding me
Invite sent.
48 remaining.

JB22
23rd March 2005, 01:04 AM
Thanks Man!!!

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:05 AM
My emails not come through yet :( . I hope Gmails quicker!

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:07 AM
My emails not come through yet :( . I hope Gmails quicker!
I've found gmail to be very reliable and quick.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:07 AM
oooooo im getting excited now!

wern
23rd March 2005, 01:10 AM
I do't think this forum allows PM, or I can't find the button for it. Can you please "invite me" to gmail??

my email is phloozie1@yahoo.com

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:12 AM
I do't think this forum allows PM, or I can't find the button for it. Can you please "invite me" to gmail??
You'll have to unlock your email. I clicked your name and the option to send you an email didn't pop up.
Unlock it and get back to me.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:13 AM
hes just given you his email, just copy and paste it into where you write your emails.

wern
23rd March 2005, 01:17 AM
arch, I have unlocked it/

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:17 AM
I do't think this forum allows PM, or I can't find the button for it. Can you please "invite me" to gmail??

my email is phloozie1@yahoo.com

Invite sent
47 remaining.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:18 AM
Do you get like 50 invites when you join or something??

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:18 AM
hes just given you his email, just copy and paste it into where you write your emails.
You actually expect me to R E A D what people write?
ahahah.. I can't do that. :roll:
:P

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:19 AM
Do you get like 50 invites when you join or something??
Something like that.

Shane_Bos
23rd March 2005, 01:21 AM
You cant read? :shock: How do you know what to reply to? Do you have a chimp reading for you?

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:25 AM
You cant read? :shock: How do you know what to reply to? Do you have a chimp reading for you?
A chimp...no...Don't be silly..I have Koko the gorilla.
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/images/rogers17.jpg

wern
23rd March 2005, 01:27 AM
arch you da man. no seriously.


How do you invite??

wern
23rd March 2005, 01:28 AM
JEEZUS MAN THAT THING IS SCARY.

Theres no way in hell id be anywhere near a monster like that/ :shock:

JB22
23rd March 2005, 01:29 AM
A chimp...no...Don't be silly..I have Koko the gorilla.
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/images/rogers17.jpg


:lol: :lol: :lol: wow...I like you already Arch...you can never go wrong with mr. rogers :D

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:30 AM
I'd love to cuddle with Koko..
Whether or not she would rather tear me apart limb from limb, would be up to her.

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 01:31 AM
:lol: :lol: :lol: wow...I like you already Arch...you can never go wrong with mr. rogers :D

Apparently, Koko LOVED Mr. Rogers.

Thought Pro
23rd March 2005, 01:50 AM
TP, I'm digging the spoofy text under your avatar. :lol:
What did Artee think of that?

He's begun stalking me full-time. :neut:

Beefeater
23rd March 2005, 02:05 AM
Arch, you've picked up some bad habits from JB, down boy.

'TheBugKahuna'
23rd March 2005, 03:38 AM
Can you sign me up as well. My email is TheBugKahuna@yahoo.com

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 04:54 AM
Can you sign me up as well. My email is TheBugKahuna@yahoo.com

no problem, bug.
glad to see you finally got an avatar. :)

Invite sent
46 remaining

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 04:55 AM
He's begun stalking me full-time. :neut:

Oh, it can't be that bad..

ArTee63
23rd March 2005, 12:19 PM
Do some research. I could swear that I heard some bad stuff about G-Mail. They search and read your mail for marketing purposes or something like that. I forget. I'll hunt around and see what I can find. Be careful.

Besides, who needs 1GB of storage!?!?!??!! :?

Spike
23rd March 2005, 12:21 PM
They're supposed to put targeted marketing links on your GMail page, after reading what you write.

They need 1gb because nothing is deleted - ever.

Thought Pro
23rd March 2005, 12:52 PM
You can delete. Perhaps it's more of a target focus to those who want to keep everything.

I've had gmail for 8 months or so and it's fine. I use Hotmail more though.

BigBadBear
23rd March 2005, 02:18 PM
I've got a g-mail account but I never use it, in fact I'm not even sure if I can remember what the e-mail address is...

It's too much hassle to inform all the people who know my hotmail e-mail address that I'm changing to a g-mail account, plus since hotmails accounts now have 250mb that's more than enough for me. I only use like 5% of that so 1gb would be no more use to me.

Ordo Ferrum
23rd March 2005, 02:57 PM
Ah but its cool to have a GMail account and boast to people saying haha i got a GMail invite and you didnt :P and watch them gloat back as they manage to get one too, and i wonder if anyone know that people have paid upwards of 60 dollars on Ebay to get a GMail invite of people........sad i know.

BigBadBear
23rd March 2005, 04:45 PM
Ah but its cool to have a GMail account and boast to people saying haha i got a GMail invite and you didnt :P and watch them gloat back as they manage to get one too, and i wonder if anyone know that people have paid upwards of 60 dollars on Ebay to get a GMail invite of people........sad i know.
Really?!

Damn, I haven't used any of my invites yet, maybe I'll give that a go... :P

I'm presuming it's getting to the point now where most people that want it have got it though. It's been around for a pretty long time now after all...

ArTee63
23rd March 2005, 05:57 PM
Again, I need to ask. WHY would you need 1GB for e-mail? Unless you are sending hi res full sized images.

Useless, I think. :?

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 06:11 PM
Again, I need to ask. WHY would you need 1GB for e-mail? Unless you are sending hi res full sized images.

Useless, I think. :?

Shouldn't the the question be, why wouldn't you need 1GB for e-mail?
Also, although there are text ads they don't interfere with your email, and I've never received ANY spam; I got spammed to hell with hotmail.

Archangel
23rd March 2005, 06:13 PM
Do some research. I could swear that I heard some bad stuff about G-Mail. They search and read your mail for marketing purposes or something like that. I forget. I'll hunt around and see what I can find. Be careful.

Besides, who needs 1GB of storage!?!?!??!! :?

5. Are there ads in Gmail?

Yes, but they are small and unobtrusive. They don't fill half your screen and we don't make you read them just to get to your inbox. Ads are never inserted into the body text of either incoming or outgoing Gmail messages and you won't see any pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail.

Gmail users only see relevant text ads, similar to those on Google search results pages . The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers.

Ads are matched using the same technology that powers the Google AdSense program, which already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them. Here's a sneak peek of how ads look in Gmail.

BigBadBear
23rd March 2005, 08:17 PM
Shouldn't the the question be, why wouldn't you need 1GB for e-mail?
Why should that be the question? I only use about 5% of the 250mb I have on my hotmail account and I doubt this is suddenly going to skyrocket. I'd say the majority of people just don't have need of that much space in their inbox.

Archangel
24th March 2005, 01:30 AM
Well I actually use some of my Gmail accounts as a server of sorts..
I've never heard of anyone complaining that they have too much space. :neut:

BigBadBear
24th March 2005, 01:55 AM
Well I'm not really complaining as such, just saying that it's not entirely necessary for your average user like myself.

At any rate, it's a lot better than the old hotmail accounts where you could only have 2mb of stuff... :x

Archangel
25th March 2005, 06:30 AM
Nobody wants Gmail?
What's gone wrong with the world?

Godma
25th March 2005, 11:56 AM
Do you check your email?

Ed
26th March 2005, 02:38 AM
Another reason why you might want a g-mail account is to break away from your Microsoft habit. Microsoft (Hotmail) have an unhealthy control on things.

Beefeater
26th March 2005, 05:10 AM
Do you check your email?

What the hell is that supposed to mean? Enigmatic are we.

Godma
26th March 2005, 11:04 AM
What the...

What's it to you anyway?

ArTee63
26th March 2005, 11:55 AM
Another reason why you might want a g-mail account is to break away from your Microsoft habit. Microsoft (Hotmail) have an unhealthy control on things.

Changing E-Mail isn't going to do much. You are still using HIS OS. Try a different OS like Linux or Mac. :wink:

Ed
26th March 2005, 04:19 PM
Changing E-Mail isn't going to do much. You are still using HIS OS. Try a different OS like Linux or Mac. :wink:
It's a start though, isn't it? You could also use FireFox instead of Internet Explorer. This one really makes sense because IE is considered relatively unsafe. I've been using FireFox for several months and it is good. Microsoft is hard to avoid but that still doesn't mean we can't try to.

Beefeater
27th March 2005, 06:45 AM
What the...

What's it to you anyway?

I don't know. I react that way to random posts.

Archangel
31st March 2005, 03:15 AM
Another invite sent.
45 invites remaining.

wern
31st March 2005, 03:41 AM
Another invite sent.
45 invites remaining.

thanks again for the gmail invite archangel.

I am using that account every day. Can you tell me how I can send invites to others to use this email?

Goliath
1st April 2005, 04:37 AM
I wouldnt mind having a Gmail. Would you be able to sign me up as well?

My email is cameronbathman@hotmail.com

smooth
2nd April 2005, 07:26 AM
What the hell lets see what fuss is all about.

h1tman@graffiti.net

Archangel
2nd April 2005, 06:26 PM
I wouldnt mind having a Gmail. Would you be able to sign me up as well?

My email is cameronbathman@hotmail.com

Invite sent
44 left

Archangel
2nd April 2005, 06:27 PM
What the hell lets see what fuss is all about.

h1tman@graffiti.net
44th invite sent
43 remaining.

Archangel
2nd April 2005, 06:29 PM
thanks again for the gmail invite archangel.

I am using that account every day. Can you tell me how I can send invites to others to use this email?
They should be in the lower left hand corner.

smooth
2nd April 2005, 08:30 PM
has anyone read this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/03/google_mail_is_evil_privacy/

Ed
2nd April 2005, 10:58 PM
thanks for that smooth. Gmail may not be the entire solution.

Shane_Bos
3rd April 2005, 05:19 PM
I cant be arsed to read that Smooth, can someone give me the gist of it?

Spike
3rd April 2005, 07:20 PM
This site can http://www.google-watch.org/

Basically between the Google cookie which tracks every search you make, the Google Toolbar and now Gmail - they can build a nice little database about you and what you're up to.

Time for a change to another search engine.

Spike
3rd April 2005, 07:36 PM
Ha ha, the Google cookie blocking tip works - no spying on me. :cool

Goliath
4th April 2005, 04:03 AM
thanks for the Gmail. It seems pretty good. Better than hotmail at least. I do not notice any advertisements while I am in Gmail.

smooth
4th April 2005, 05:49 AM
I cant be arsed to read that Smooth, can someone give me the gist of it?


You close your account they still keep your email. You delete it, they still have a copy on their drive.