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Derek
Citizen
Username: Derek
Post Number: 125
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 4:39 pm: |     |
Post your name and email address here or email me: dbacharach@gmail.com if you'd like a gmail account free.
I'll take the first four who are interested. |
composerjohn
Citizen
Username: Composerjohn
Post Number: 113
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 8:12 pm: | |
my friend sent me an invite for gmail. Is it hard to get an account?? Is this something special I should sign up for? |
Derek
Citizen
Username: Derek
Post Number: 126
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 9:01 pm: | |
You can only get an email account from someone who already has an account. They've been available for sale on ebay for awhile. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4751
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 6:33 pm: | |
Google is beta testing an e-mail program which uses a discussion thread format in which related e-mails are listed as a discussion thread, much like the threads here on the MOL discussion board. They also have a search feature which lets you locate an individual e-mail by entering a search word or phrase.
According to my in-box, I have six invites to distribute. Send me a private line (be sure to include a valid e-mail address since I don't think invites can be sent through private line) if you are interested and if I can figure out how to do so, I will gladly send invites to the first six people who respond.
There is no need to pay for an invite on ebay. |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 874
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:29 pm: | |
I've got ten, too. Feel free to PL me as well, if Joan is out. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5210
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:51 pm: | |
http://www.nytimes.com/technology/poguesposts/index.html |
Derek
Citizen
Username: Derek
Post Number: 129
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:55 pm: | |
Got three invites left. |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 230
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 4:40 pm: | |
How does one get all these invites to send ? Is it based on the number of emails you send usually? |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 421
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 6:22 pm: | |
I have several too -- just PL me. A MOLer gave me mine back in August -- and I love using it for work. |
drewdix
Citizen
Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 804
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:21 am: | |
I've been using it for a couple of days; so far it's ok--visually confusing actually, and not sure that th add'l benefits make a whole big difference, or that it's the next email idiom.
But I'll give it a good try. |
Strings
Supporter
Username: Blue_eyes
Post Number: 332
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:32 am: | |
I've been using Gmail for 3 months or so and absolutely LOVE it. I've already used and appreciated the search feature and starred mail feature and have the Gmail Notifier installed in my home and work computer. I disagree on it being visually confusing, I think the set up is great. I also have some invites available - they keep giving me more. I suppose it's the only way they can market their "product" right now since you can't just go to a website and sign up.
My only complaint about it is that you can't compose and email and THEN go to your Contact List to fill in who to send it to, you have to pick the email addresses first. Unless I just haven't figured out how to do that, which is quite possible. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5232
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 3:30 pm: | |
OK, I've been trying it since yesterday. It's weird, but I am getting to like it quickly. I'm still not sure if I'll totally switch, but I see there are lots of possibilities.
And I have three invites available, for whatever they're worth. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1421
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 3:44 pm: | |
The bet part of gmail is gDrive. (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm)
In short it turns your gmail account into a virtual Drive. You can drag and drop folders, files, what ever to get stored in your gmail account.
My GF and I both hook our machines to it and swap music all the time.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5233
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 4:03 pm: | |
Holy cow, this is amazing.
Can I look at my gmail drive from the email interface?
I've been doing something like this, saving drafts to my IMAP server and attaching files to the drafts. But this is very nice. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1422
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 4:13 pm: | |
I've never tried, but we have forwarded the emails to other people and the file comes in as an attachment. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4766
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 4:42 pm: | |
Is there anyway to link related strings of e-mails into a single continuous conversation? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5234
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 5:07 pm: | |
Joan, most mailers do that. They usually group them by subject line, but sometimes, the dig into the message headerss and follow threads by tags called "Message-ID" and "References". That way, when person A responds to person B's message and changes the subject, you can still see that A's message is a response to B's.
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Martha Drattler
Citizen
Username: Cmc344
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 2:39 pm: | |
I'm using the gDrive but I can't put music into it. Everytime I try to copy my music from my harddrive, it says that the files are too large.. Has anyone else gotten this? Has anyone gotten it to work? |
Derek
Citizen
Username: Derek
Post Number: 142
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:58 pm: | |
I still have a couple invites if anyone's still interested. |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 445
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 8:10 am: | |
wow, a $100 bucks a pop on ebay? I have 6, but maybe i should sell them?
Gmail is good stuff. Iniitally I didn' like the lack of control on the user interface. I couldn't make it into what I wanted it to look like. Now I am used to it. Its fast, and reliable. I think its a winner for google. |
OddLot
Citizen
Username: Amh
Post Number: 42
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 12:43 pm: | |
Rick -- I don't think you can get $100 for them any more. There are 785 current auctions for Gmail accounts on ebay. There is one expiring in 20 minutes with a high bid of $0.10. |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 449
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 12:46 pm: | |
doht! |
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