we're gonna try and make this the definitive Gmail thread. All those who want to talk about gmail have hereby been given their call! Let's have info, details, views, and other angles of insight upon Gmail.
If you don't know what Gmail is, then this topic is surely not of your interest and you can give it a pass.

whats gmail (jus kiddin)

why start a new 1, theres already like 5 on the go

Those of you who haven't yet got gmail - here's your chance.
Put in your request - WITHOUT EMAIL ID - just say that you want one. Based on the response, I'll either post invites right here or send it to your email box.

Giving some info from my side (about what Gmail is) would be in order:
Gmail is short for "Google Mail". Yes, it is a service provided by Google (the search
kings).

It has a nice interface, with lots of unique propositions - the major ones being 1000 MB of reliable storage, 20 MB attachment size, and their fresh approach to email through the concept of conversations. And gmail's main features are as follows:
1. Offers 1000 MB of storage.
2. Is webmail but many utilities exist to retrieve it just like POP3 mail.
3. Mail is sorted into "Conversations".
4. It has a very fast interface.
5. Does not append ads to outgoing mails.
6. Has a powerful search facility, so you can search within your mails.
7. Uses fresh concepts for organising mails like labels, starred messages, etc.
8. Easy to use contact list.
9. The assurance that it is google who operates your mail, and so it is quite safe/fast/no-downtime.
10. Not supported on opera - but v7.60 preview1 of opera does have a workaround.

1 invitation please? . everybody talk about its spam-block aptitudes and i want to test them. also i would like to know how a 1GB account can be managed via google

I would love to have it

How do you sign up for it?
First you need to have an invite from someone who is already a member. It seems that initially google employees and a few select individuals got invitations to sign-up. Then the gmail members are offered invitations which they can hand-out to friends and family. That chain of getting invited and then giving others an invite continues until google decides that they can't support any more members. Then when they feel that they have got more resources, another new round of invites is sent out, and it carries on....

Once you've got the e-mail id registered, you never know how long it would be before you are offered invites to distribute. It seems to be totally random, with no scientific rationale, nor pattern being followed. Some people do claim that you get invites based on your position in the chain of invites or upon your usage of the service - it is still not a confirmed fact.


@SimonSays and tiredoflogins
if you keep checking back at this thread, you will find invites for yourselves - right now you two don't seem to be reading at this topic. I'll give out invites right here to anyone who has asked for an invite and is still at this topic/page.

Many of you might have already heard of gmail, and know a lot about it - the only thing being that you might not know someone who already is registered at google mail to send you an invite. Over the last few months, it has almost started to acquire overtones of some sort of status indicator for the owner of a gmail account. Gmail is going public in approximately 3 months, according to rumours (ABSOLUTELY UNCONFIRMED). So gmail invites is not a commodity you'd like to hoard. You might as well get other people join the numbers on Gmail. Hey dudes, I've got a few gmail invites dropped in my account, and would like to distribute it to others.Since I've gained a lot from here, I'd like to also give back here.

There's going to be links to invites posted here. I'm going to do so once in every XY minutes, and whoever was the lucky person to get it registered should post that he/she was the one. There's going to be atleast 10 invites given out now, over the next few hours. There's no fun in giving them all out at once. Lots of browsers have a feature to "Auto-reload this page every X seconds". I request those who already have a gmail account to not use these invites - let those who are still outside the circle join ya - beneficial for all concerned.

i'd love too have gMail, I've been using Google for about 5 years now. and am very happy with it and do all my surfin with google... so much so that my Unattended Windows XP CD's change my homepage, search, and installs the google toolbar for me.. lol... so yea..

Reopened...

[Edit]: Not in need of one anymore - thanks gamehead200

If anyone so happens to have a gmail invite code to spare, I would really appreciate. It's not for me (already have one-but somehow never get invite codes...) but for a website I'm going to be the new webmaster of soon. Thanks.

(As for how gmail is, well, it's 100% spam free so far, and decently fast, but I don't use it much).

prathapml, I think it would be better to give them out to members who have been here more than a week and have a post count over 50 so that new members (such as members just registering to get one) will not get one, since that is unfair...

So if you would like a Gmail invite, please post a reply saying so (as long as you have 50+ posts and have been part of this forum for AT LEAST a week; spamming does not count) and prathapml and I would be happy to give you one! Also, please post your e-mail address in this format so that you do not receive any spam: name [at] domain [dot] com

okay, gamehead.
[french accent]
Bonjour. Je want zee GMail account. Mon email is Nolookingca AT yahoo DOT ca

oh great and wise Gamehead:
May I grovel at your feet for the chance at a gmail account?
*EDIT Email Removed; Thanks a lot! I owe you so much!*

got some left, feel free to hit me up

Thanks again Prathapml for the invite, I LOVE Gmail

but got a question though.... when or how do you get the invites too send too people.. i got 2 friends that want invites, but they're not members here, just wondering how i can give them invites.

Thanks

A link SHOULD show up in your Gmail account telling you that you can invite x number of friends to Gmail!

kk thanks

Ok, these are the people who've been sent invites, check your mail-boxes please....

crahak
nolookingca
arablizzard2413



If you've received the invite, and registered it, please come back to this thread, and say so, and edit your post to remove the email address. DO NOT POST YOUR CURRENT E-MAIL ADDRESS HERE. That will leave you open to spamming. You just need to click on the invite link provided for registration (in IE/firefox).

I thank crispy and gamehead for their generosity - since I first got a gmail invite from them (now don't go pestering them for invites - the distribution of invites here is mine/gamehead's initiative).

Hey you others on msfn - those who've got an invite going waste could post it here - will earn you some gratitude. There are some sites where the privileged few who have gmail invites to spare will swap an invite for something in return from you. But I just want the max. number of people to benefit. The only requirement is that that you should be online and watching this thread when I post the link to an invite - otherwise you would lose it to someone else.

I would love a GMail Account. My e-mail is chris [dot] simon [at] home [dot] nl

I received one from gamehead200. Thank you very much sir, it will be great help.

@prathapml: I haven't received one from you (yet?), or it just might have catched by a spam filter by yahoo along with the 241 other flagged emails that I had in there Perhaps I should check it more than once per week. Either ways, I don't an extra one, so perhaps you can let someone else who need it have it. Thanks a lot still

Nice Idea prathapml like one of the other members said make such you give them to right people and dont get screwed hope every one is thank full . just my 2cent's

You only get one. It doesn't matter from who.

you guys redefine the term giving back

The indeed do that this way. and when i recieve an invitation, i also give my invitations away

Check your PMs!

Now........
Let's crank up the excitement by a li'l bit:

Please click on this link only if you don't already have gmail, and whoever has got the account registered from the following invites, do come back and say so. Whoever registers - You can change the first/last name, and the secondary email address.

GOOGLE INVITE:
---removed---

i'm enyoing it. i will send out some more invitations too in the morning

Let's give it back to the community - gmail ought to have already been public, keeping it exclusive is not very good.

ANOTHER:
---link removed---
Please click on this link only if you don't already have gmail, and whoever has got the account registered from the following invites, do come back and post to say so.

prathapml i would not do that your giving all the new-b's and spamers free gmail

I have nothing against new-b's

Well, by the time the newbies chance upon those links - its gonna be taken up. Hey buddies - do use those gmail registration links responsibly - DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK IF YOU ALREADY HAVE GMAIL.

Thank you! I wish I could give you something, but I can't sorry...

I dont know to many people who would be giving away gmail prathapml i hope your kindness does not go unthanked

i would not know what to do with a gig of email space, but if i ever feel the need to try it i will let you know. by the way how is it, is it better than say the email your isp gives you.

Well, right now it doesn't look like too many people need gmail! :S

Do post here if you want gmail invites (and don't already have a gmail account).

i really like my new gmail account. thanks prathapml
i think it could be a great idea: give accounts to other MSFN members and when they got their invitations, share them with another MSFN members
a pair of rules like have registered a month ago or have a hundred of posts or so would be enought... dunno
anyway i promise to share my invitations with other MSFN members in this thread... when i got some of them

I Have 4 invitations to give away. The rules that some people said, still applay

eagle, holy cow!!!

That's awesome!! Invites already....

Yeah. indeed it is.

I guess that nobody else wants a gmail account

hahahahaha!
i can't believe it, so many time asking for that mail and now people simply "don't want"

I got quite a few going to waste, they just keep giving them to me.....


so the rules are what? over 2500 posts? j/k
so yeah....here's some more.

mmmm no, no, we have talked about it and rules are: over 670 posts and at least 3 months here j/k

I'd kill for a GMail account. u_u My Spymac (also, 1GB email) account has been on the fritz this past month and won't let me pull in new messages. Sick of Spymac, they're even starting to put ads on the webspace pages, slow as well. And I can't use my ISP's mail.

But gamehead200 says "50+ posts and one week"...

>_<

Atleast you're past that one week mark.

I guess famer here already has gmail - he was trying to help - do tell if you need one.

As for tak, has alanoll sent you an invite, or what?
I'd like to ask that whoever is sending invites to those who have requested in this thread - should post saying that an invite has been sent to user XYZ (for example) - so that multiple people don't end up inviting the same person.

hmm i cant get rid of 'm that fast strange i cant sell them atm cuse i first need to confirm ebayaccount.

so my offer still stands if you need GMAIL reply to this topic so we can help you out
they keep giving invites

I would love to have GMail account. My email address is rizzc4 [at] hotmail [dot] com. Thx inadvance

Nope. But I'll be back in this thread in two-three weeks or so

Edit: YAY! Thank you, prathapml! Goodbye, Spymac. Many thanks. Now I can actually have a working email account

These are the people who've been sent invites, check your Personal Messages please....

- tak
- riZz


As alanoll said, atleast you're past that one week mark. Please note that this doesn't mean that people who've not posted much on the forums will also get invites - the above two have been helpful on the forums, so a slight relaxation - but we immediately raise the bar back to 50 posts.

If you've received the invite, and registered it, please come back to this thread, and say so, and edit your post to remove the email address. You just need to click on the invite link provided for registration (in IE/firefox).