<OT> yet more Gmail invites

[Net Llama!]

In other gmail news, seems like Gmail is about to open up to the general
public very soon.  Everyone who submitted their email to be notified when
gmail is going 'live' started getting notifications today.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I love gmail for the use I put it to -- which is mailing lists only.
> This builds a personal archive of the lists that I deem most likely to help,
> and I can do searches on it as required.
>
> I don't direct any personal mail there at all, because I'm a bit leery
> of Google's privacy policies.
>
> Oh, and on the original topic, I also have 50 invites, and nobody to send
> them to.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:08:06 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:34:21 -0500, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I happen to be VERY proud of the fact that I have 0 gmail invites. That would
> > > mean I DON'T have a gmail account...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tim (who fails to see the attraction of a gmail account)
> > >
> >
> > Not to kindle any flame wars, but the attractions IMHO are:
> >
> > 1. I am relieved of the need to tinker with any sort of POP3 or IMAP
> > software on my system.
> > 2. Like with IMAP, I can get to my mail from anywhere that runs a
> > supported browser.
> > 3. Also, I don't need to tinker with any SPAM software on my system.
> > Gmail does an excellent job of isolating spam to a folder where I can
> > review and whack it. There are damn few misses (it learns quickly when
> > I report a missed spam) and even fewer false hits.
> >
> > The drawbacks are:
> >
> > 1. Gmail is not always smart enough to generate a reply to the list in
> > every case. Depending on the headers, I may get list, both list and
> > sender, or sender only, but most of the time it works.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > --
> >  Collins
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> >
>
>
>

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