I need a new email account now that I've graduated, anyone have an invite to spare?
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I need a new email account now that I've graduated, anyone have an invite to spare?
ya, but you have to have an email to send the invite too. PM or post it.
First come, first serve.
HERE
Done and done.
EOT
hey, um, any chance i could get one too? :D
Annnd done. I have 49 more, if anyone else is innaressed.
thanks mang!
Pas probleme, amigo.
I've a ton as well
me too...just ask. :wink:
What's so special about Gmail over Yahoo?
Hotmail obviously sucks so I use it as spam-bait because I hate Micro$hit.
hotmail absolutely sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by 13
gmail used to be the only one to have mega-storage, but yahoo does now also.
For me, gmail is better cause you get free pop3 smtp access, which means I can email from cellphone/pda and also from outlook.
this may or may not be something you want or need.
if don't need pop access, yahoo or gmail are both good.
The way your email conversations "thread" (for want of a better term) is also really sweet. It makes old stuff really easy to find, and it's almost like using IM. There's a lot of memory, but it's all so organized and easy to use I'm burning it up. Still in no danger of running out though.
i have 50 as well....
Thanks Core Shot.
I have no need for pop3/smtp, but I may try Gmail anyway if someone PMs an invite to me.
Done, 13.
I could also try it if some one still have invites left.
Thanks. I'll give it a whirl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
anybody know how to get smileys working on Gmail?
I can send 50 invites, refresh and there are 50 more. Nuts.
Anyone need one or 50, pm me too.
Heh
15 years later
Wow
Raise your hand if you have a gmail account that is your real name.
spoiler: I am the only person in the country with my name.
I have my name as my Gmail address.
There's a guy in St George that has almost the same name, I get his emails occasionally.
Me: no. I wasted my invite on a word related to my job at the time.
One of my brothers got his real name later when you didn't even need an invite.
Close, last.first@gmail.comQuote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
I regularly get spam-ish emails (account confirmation emails for apps I never signed up for, emailed receipts purportedly from Home Depot locations in Texas, stuff like that) addressed to lastfirst@gmail.com. I don't know what the deal is there.
On topic, it's not like there was an abundance of great email clients available in 2005. There was what, Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL?
the dot is meaningless in gmail addresses.
last.first is the same as lastfirst
Huh.... I did not know that. I just tested it (I have a dot in mine) from another email and it went through. That was new to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by TG
You can also use '+xxxxxxx' and it goes to the same address but allows for sorting.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
I had an address since April 04, I don't have any idea why my friend had codes so quickly but he did
I have my real name as a Gmail address. There's a lawyer in Georgia with my name and sometimes I get emailed Court docs. Lol
I think it was mostly POP accounts hosted by the ISPs, who used your email address as a form of customer captivity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Yup - pretty much. Gmail ate their lunch in the functionality department. I'd had a Yahoo! email for a LONG time and was quite happy to switch to gmail around '08.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
The email sans periods thing is new to me as well. In that case mine is my first, middle initial, last. Good way to avoid the spam
Speaking of the name thing, I’m ready to ditch my primary gmail.
About five years ago three dumb folks in India and Indonesia and one in California started typing in my name instead of their actual email and I get bank statements, instagrams, flight reservations etc.
Half tempted to fuck with them, but I’m not that mean.
MindspringQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
I thought I was the only oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Well thanks for mailsplaning this to us.
[emoji849]
Gmail app has gone to shit imo
I was using my full name with my old yahoo email account. I have the same name as a notable local political writer and I received death threats, I was a middle schooler iirc. Got a pretty sweet tour of the Boston Globe facility outta it. Perhaps this discussion belongs in the million dollar ideas thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Artist Formerly Known as Leavenworth Skier
mine is my full name at gmail dot comQuote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
We're the only family with our last name in the country. Unfortunately 3 of us have the same first initial. So I opted for a number instead of full first name. But the similarity is how we discovered a long lost branch of the family (lost to us, they knew where they were the whole time)--when an email meant for a member of one branch went to a member of the other branch. That was before they invented DNA.
Holy crap! I had some local internet provider email like you guys are talking about, the ones where you are held hostage. But the holy crap is because I think this walk down memory lane just reminded me of my old login name to TGR that I abandoned when I lost it years ago, before I came back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I’m gonna have to see if it still works...