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GMail updates and address giveaways are some VERY popular topics of discussion here.

One of the most popular threads recently was the GMAil invites thread. People were signing up to TR in droves to get an invite, but it just got too much to handle after a while so it has been kept to members with SOME history here as opposed to new signups due to the GMail threads.

Not of interest to you? NO problem.

Many others have shown a great deal of interest in GMAil here, so I sould say that it is a fair topic for discussion. I appreciated the update which I have now duly noted as I don't use my G that much. Sure it's an plug for someone's service, but at least it's relevant to what we do here, it's not for wall panels or moving and storage companies.

Public rag? Well yes it is really, we all come here to talk abotu IT, changes in IT, additions to the IT world, tools tips and tricks and I think this fits in that theme quite well.

I suppose you'll have to back up to all those pro MS posts and start flaming them for advertising now? There's a full time job in itself!

i rather wait till the beta is out. also I d like to see how it runs in the future. i know that gmail have alot of storage for email etc,.

let s see

A few months back, people started offering Gmail accounts here. THe thread was so busy it was inmanageable. People were getting tonnes of invites here and every new user did too. Once the word got out to other areas of the internet, TR signups SOARED, as everyone wanted in on teh GMail accounts. We (those offering invites) ended up dealing with only those who had some long term interest in TR, those that had been here a year or so as there were just too many requests to keep up with.

My Gmail has been excellent, fast, HUGE, reliable and now has a lot of new features that put it on a par with other clients. I transfer large files to Europe, thus I can do so with GMail (12MB per attachment) and when they can't receive large attachments on the other end, they can just log into one of MY GMail accounts and download the file from there.

GMail at one time had more than 2 million requests in a long waiting list for invites, there's no possible way you can qualify saying "people are not ruching to it" because they are, in fact they are rushing in great hoards.

As fo rthe open window, it keep opening, I get a dozen invites on three accounts, once I give them up, I see 50 more. Then a week later, no more invites for a while.

I, too, bought into the G-Mail hype, but I'm glad I did. I actually bought several invitations off eBay! After I set up a few accounts, I realized that I wasted my money (total of 2.42); most of the accounts self-generated the opportunity to invite more people anyway.
So why the Hush?
As Dude said, it's still in Beta form, though I've only seen a few times I could not log on.
Why no Rush?
That puzzled me!
I was so excited about getting pretty much any screen name I wanted since it was still new-ish I figured all my e-buddies would flock to this; at least use it as storage.
But, I had two people who actually set up an account and use it.
Personally, I'm using it to grab a few key names I use in my business, and for the archiving ability in case my Hard Drive crashes. Nothing sensitive is stored, but I do have a novel I've been editing... hate to lose that!
I listen to webtalkradio.com and they've been rather quite for a few months about G-mail after the initial rush. I always wondered why...
montanasings

[b]A more flexible filing system[/b]

[u]The old way[/u]

You create an elaborate filing system of folders and subfolders, then decide where to file a single message.

[u]The Gmail way[/u]

Instead of folders, Gmail uses labels to give you the functionality of folders, but with more flexibility. In Gmail, a single conversation can have several labels, so you're not forced to choose one particular folder for each message you receive. That way, if a conversation covers more than one topic, you can retrieve it with any of the labels that you've applied to it. And, of course, you can always search for it.

The search feature walks all over Yahoo mail.

SECURITY: So far, GMail is not a lesson found in "Hacking Online Email 101". Whereas Yahoo and Hotmail are the number one hacks for newbies learning how to hack online email.
Most 12 year olds these days can grab your Yahoo or Hotmal password and enter your account in minutes.

GMail offers full HTML and rich text formatting.

GMail uses Picasa Googles online photo album that includes email resizing to make smaller files for other email recipients and it can be used to send up to 10 Megs of photos from up to 2 GIG's of stored photos.

Sure you can STORE your photos on Yahoo, but how many megs can you send to someone? How is Yahoo's photo storage considered "a much more usefull feature than having a 2G webmail account"?

You can have 2 GIGs of 'organized' photos on GMail with a viewer/album manager to sort them.

Perhaps you haven't looked at GMail recently? Perhaps you haven't even TRIED GMail?
If you want one, I have invites just leave your addy, but use AT instead of @ to reduce your chances of web crawler spam.

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Anyone looking for a invite, I have some.

TBR

I gave away my last batch to friends in UK, but if more pop up, as they seem to at random, I will definitely make note of your post and send one to you. YOu will need peer sontact available or an email addy, just don't post it here complete, use AT instead of @ so you don't get spam.

ie:
user AT mydomain.com

EDIT: as it turns out all of my Gmail acocunts DO have 50 invites per account again. Just peer-mail me with your email address and I'll forward one to you.

Just kidding.

John