Free Gmail Invites!

foxmulder · Nov 11, 2005, 06:47 AM

Hey everyone. I still have 100 Gmail invites to giveaway. I don't know what the hell to do with them all. If anybody wants one, let me know on my blog. I have plenty to go around.

http://users.tpg.com.au/fmdswash/freebies.html

g35x · Nov 16, 2005, 12:40 PM

ill request one when im on my home comp and my internet works but yea thx alot (im in school now and no outlook and my comcast at home aint workin)

Sandok · Nov 16, 2005, 12:42 PM

I thikn they should just make Gmail public now.. I mean, a 100 invites?!

calidan · Nov 16, 2005, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandok

I thikn they should just make Gmail public now.. I mean, a 100 invites?!

They should make it public. I have 100 invites left too.

toyomatt84 · Nov 16, 2005, 05:41 PM

I've got like 50 invites left, so if ya'll need any.

EDIT: I know why they have it as an invite only, it's to limit the abilities of spam email accounts. For instance, I have tons of yahoo spammers (People with yahoo accounts that do nothing but spam other yahoo accounts). Maybe this is a simple, yet effective way to limit the spammage.

cheese_thief · Nov 16, 2005, 06:41 PM

http://isnoop.net/gmail/

BWX · Nov 16, 2005, 07:50 PM

yeah I have 100 too...

g35x · Nov 17, 2005, 07:55 AM

LOL yeah they should make it public since 1/2 the world will b on it after everyone is invited and sends their invites...send an invite my way plz g35x@hotmail.com hotmail sucks

BWX · Nov 17, 2005, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by g35x

LOL yeah they should make it public since 1/2 the world will b on it after everyone is invited and sends their invites...send an invite my way plz g35x@hotmail.com hotmail sucks

sent

The_Neon_Cowboy · Nov 17, 2005, 05:25 PM

Free services ain't free and thier not makeing thier money from
just advertiseing banners. I still like to be the only one that reads
my email, thanks!. Isnted of leting spam bots scower over you emails
to help key in advertiseing. In the end your aiding advertisers & solictors.
Also ever wonderwhy its invite only? again it marketings research going on
like I said. In the end the data collected will end up in the hands of the same
kind of people in the end send you spam becouse you "oped in" AKA when
they bought you name of a spamers list lol

g35x · Nov 18, 2005, 07:28 AM

wtf r u talking about??? lol thx alot for the invite

BWX · Nov 18, 2005, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by g35x

wtf r u talking about??? lol thx alot for the invite

He's got point... they advertise based on words in your emails and whatnot..

As far as a non-ISP email (free mail) it is the best for me though.. It gets less spam than any other e-mail I have ever used. I would still like to be able to filter better.. And I think it has limitations like no POP3 or something like that. Not sure exactly what it was - I forgot.

toyomatt84 · Nov 18, 2005, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BWX

sent

Rofl.. I sent one as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

Free services ain't free and thier not makeing thier money from
just advertiseing banners. I still like to be the only one that reads
my email, thanks!. Isnted of leting spam bots scower over you emails
to help key in advertiseing. In the end your aiding advertisers & solictors.
Also ever wonderwhy its invite only? again it marketings research going on
like I said. In the end the data collected will end up in the hands of the same
kind of people in the end send you spam becouse you "oped in" AKA when
they bought you name of a spamers list lol

Anyone else having difficulty understanding this?

LeanWolf · Nov 18, 2005, 10:35 AM

it's always hard to make out neon's jibberish, actually this one's more legible than most...
the first point is that google have bots reading your email to find out what you like in order to customize ads for you, and who knows what else...
the second is that they still use the invite system because they want to know who your friends are and what they like.
All this makes up very valuable customer information, which they horde and use. Combined with their search tools and other newer services (think: whenever you search, google checks your gmail account cookie and thus knows even more about you) google is getting powerful indeed.

BWX · Nov 18, 2005, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by LeanWolf

it's always hard to make out neon's jibberish, actually this one's more legible than most...
the first point is that google have bots reading your email to find out what you like in order to customize ads for you, and who knows what else...
the second is that they still use the invite system because they want to know who your friends are and what they like.
All this makes up very valuable customer information, which they horde and use. Combined with their search tools and other newer services (think: whenever you search, google checks your gmail account cookie and thus knows even more about you) google is getting powerful indeed.

Yeah but you can turn off advanced features in the google bar (if you use that like me).. and you can also log out of google.. Does it still track your searches then? It must track IP's and send info about every search if it does, and also if you turn off the advanced features I don't think they do that.