G-mail

[Goober Mcfly]

I just got my Gmail address, thanks to a lovely Farkette. (www.fark.com)

Anyone else got one?

 

[WhaWhaWha]

No and no thanks.
If I get one they'll justinvent something else

 

[diva631]

So what's a G-mail?

 

[Hotdog]

So what's a G-mail?

https://gmail.google.com/

"A Google approach to email.
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. The key features are:

Search, don't sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.

Don't throw anything away.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.

Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.

No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest."

 

[Goober Mcfly]

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

It's Google's free email program. It's got a gigabyte of storage, vs. Hotmail's measly 1 megabyte.

Right now it's by invite only. But if you beg hard enough, people will send you invites.

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[[ALIMEISTER]]

How hard do I have to beg Goober?

 

[wrong hole]

Goober....can you get me a Gmail account since your mom wants to send me a video but I don't have enough space to store it in my hotmail account

 

[Goober Mcfly]

How hard do I have to beg Goober?

I dunno. I just asked, and someone gave it to me...

That sounds mildly sexual...

 

[Goober Mcfly]

wrong hole: No.

 

[wrong hole]

Your mom is not going to be happy about that......since it is her favourite 'water sports' video

 

[kooley]

if i say sens rule will it help?

 

[xarir]

G-mail - meh. So passe. I've already got my XZ+9-mail account. I'd love to tell you the details, but it's so advanced that I'd have to kill you right after I tell you.

BTW - Sens still suck.

 

[canucklehead]

Enjoy your G-mail account ....did you know that even if you delete the emails you want to from your G-Mail account they get archived and remain searchable as per your user agreement. Also any email that remains on a public server such as the google server for longer then 120 days falls into the public domain no longer being private. You may not use any encryption on G Mail emails.
Email senders and users will be searchable by keywords in the body of the email mail... publicly or by government agencies.
My company and many security audit companies have already but together a cut and paste reply message for email received by G Mail user.
Imagine the RIAA asking to search for any email bodies containing the words download and mp3, and then asking for those email addresses. This doesn't even include the crap from the Patriot Act.
This copy and paste is for your own use.

Dear Gmail user: Due to privacy considerations, we cannot respond unless you resend your email from a different account. For more information, please visit http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com

 

[BoxHunter]

Hey Goober,
Can I give it to you?

 

[djk]

www.gmailswap.com for those interested in obtaining one.

I've been offered a gmail account through my friends on Orkut but I don't see the point of a 1gb email.

Just seems like a waste.

Now when google offers dedicated servers with unlimited bandwidth, I'll be interested.

Cheers,

-djk

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Dear Gmail user: Due to privacy considerations, we cannot respond unless you resend your email from a different account. For more information, please visit http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com

Well, I suppose I should have read the EULA.

*shrugs*

At least I'm mildly cool among the pseudo-geek community.

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[Goober Mcfly]

Hey Goober,
Can I give it to you?

Depends what "it" is....

Hey, rumour has it your hot, though, so "it" can't be so bad. Scores of construction workers can't be wrong!

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