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At the moment I've got five to dish out to whoever wants one. Just leave a message below.

Also leave a message if you want to donate your invites

Is it OK to leave a message if we've no idea what a Gmail invite is????

Mol

So, have you been testing it, then?

Well, I guess I *am* interested, then...

I kinda figured I'd try to get in early with the Gmail addresses and get myself a decent e-mail/username.

Do I qualify?

Hmm, I was kinda hoping Hotmail were going to keep their promise and upgrade their capacity to something decent - but as this doesn't look like its happening at the moment...

Hi Whisky,

actually, Hotmail just have upgraded to 250Mb... and the Calendar for free users... if that's what you meant.

I got six Gmail invites

Hi Jodan,

so what is this 'invitation' stuff all about then?

And what's all this I hear about Google being 'evil'?

how ya doin, btw?

spiff

I do good

They give people invitations and they can send them to other people, who will get more invitations.

Evil? Probably hotmail and Yahoo! propaganda, or the ads on invasion of privacy.

Spiff, I just sent an invite to the email address on your page but it bounced (wasting an invite). Could you email me at the address on my page and I'll send another.

Could you also drop me an email Whisky and I'll send one your way too.


Mol, Gmail is a web based email service run by Google. It differs from most webmail services in two major ways:
1. 1Gb(ish) email box for free
2. You don't delete your email, you archive it for Googling at a later date

I have seven invites to offer.

Croz- iof an invite bounces, you can forward the returned email to someone else, and then they can follow the link in the email instead.

E-mail on its way Croz...

As for Hotmail - Yup, they've promised 250Mb - I've got access to the calender but am still stuck with just 2Megs for the mailbox - they say they'll get around to upgrading everyone 'eventually' (whenever that might be )

I'll have one please darlin'!

I always blow my top when I try to upgrade my hotmail account, fill in all the tedious little boxes, and then find that it won't accept a non-UK postcode

Invites sent to both of you

All signed up

Thanks to Croz, I've got a g-mail account too. It is very nifty.

Thanks buddy.

Thanks Croz - Account opened... Now just sitting back waiting for the spam to start arriving

I've had mine for about a month, and there's been getting very little in terms of spam hitting it.

Can't be worse than my work address anyway....

It's only in the address book of about three people, then I made the mistake of using it to register a piece of software (ADOBE) - now you should see the spam I get...

After three weeks holiday I had to clear out just over 1100 spam messages from my inbox

I've also got six invites if anyone wants them....

Yes please! My normal webmail only gives me 3MB.