Want a GMail (Google Email) account?

[SirFozzie]

Try Gmailswap.com

Neuq already has his gmail account, and I'm in the process of getting it as well. You can offer a material good, or just go for the simple thing.. mine was.. "I offer the knowledge that it will be used for good and not evil" or something like that.

We both got offers within 2 minutes of posting.

[Neuqua]

I wonder if this was the reason Yahoo! decided to give away 100mb email accounts. I was surprised when they told me they had upgraded me.

And this Gmail isn't too bad either. Although still looks very plain.

[Draft Dodger]

my 6 MB Yahoo account was more than enough. 100 is overkill, although the 10 MB file limit might come in handy.

Yahoo just broke YahooPop, so I'm a little annoyed at the moment.

[Fidatelo]

Thanks for the tip SirFozzie! I've been dying to get a gmail account since I heard about it in April, and now I finally got one!

[skrath]

Gmail rocks, it's the best webbased email I've seen. So simple yet so effective, like most of Google. Beg, borrow or steal an invite if you can.

[Fidatelo]

I'm loving my first look at it, but am vexxed with one thing: no way (that I can tell) to import/export contacts. I hope they look at adding this functionality in the future, I hate typing all that stuff out.

[Hurst2112]

I just got one. Is this a limited trial?

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Try Gmailswap.com

Neuq already has his gmail account, and I'm in the process of getting it as well. You can offer a material good, or just go for the simple thing.. mine was.. "I offer the knowledge that it will be used for good and not evil" or something like that.

We both got offers within 2 minutes of posting.

I'm going to steal your line and see if it works for me...

[JeeberD]

Dola-

Yup, it worked! Less than five minutes...

[skrath]

It's not a limited trial, it's a Beta, which is where there are invites. No one knows yet when it will open for public consumption.

[Alf]

Not working for me now..

[oliegirl]

Wow - that is SO cool! I posted a swap and within a minute I had an email!!!! Thanks!

[rjolley]

If you've paid for Yahoo's Premium Plus email, or have DSL service with SBC/Yahoo, you now get 2G of email space.

I don't know if I've gotten 2G of worthwhile email in the last 5 years. Wish they would've given me free game or music downloads or something instead...

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Alf

Not working for me now..

My gmail is down right now too, kind of dissapointing on my first day of having it. Oh well, I'm still happy

[Franklinnoble]

Dude... that gmail swap worked fast...

Thanks for sharing... I've been wanting one of those accounts since they announced it...

[Ramzavail]

webbased email stinks.

go pop or get lag.

[Noop]

what is gmail?

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Ramzavail

webbased email stinks.

go pop or get lag.

Yeah, 1GB of free e-mail space stinks.

[Ryan S]

Google Email

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Noop

what is gmail?

http://gmail.google.com/

[Suicane75]

I'll Leave You Alone
Author: Suicane (---.lambrv01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: 17-06-04 00:17

Ya know that guy at the party thats always hanging around and being unfunny, butting into conversations and being generaly abrasive, talking about how much he gets laid (when you know he only gets the chubby girls with low self esteem), how much money he makes (even though you know he can't even hold down a job at McDonalds cause he always punches the big mac button when someone orders a quarter pounder and the fry cooks all think he smells weird), and what money he does have he spends on beer for everyone else because they wont talk to him unless he's supplying alcohol, and you take him up on his offer only to realize that no amount of booze in the world is worth sitting around listening to him talk about who his favorite wrestler is and wether or not HHH should put over Eugene for 4 hours on a Saturday night, well i'm that guy......and i'll stop. How does that benefit you? Well simple, you don't me now, but maybe in a few years you will, maybe one day you'll walk into A McDonalds with a friend talking about the Velvet Revolver concert coming up and i'll overhear you and mention that I have tickets to the concert (of course i have tickets, i need your friendship) and i'll offer to give 1 to you, and you'll go and the vicious cycle will begin. I'll be calling you at 2am on a Saturday night when my pocket vagina is worn out and ask you if you wanna hang out, you'll be with your girlfriend of course and decline, but i'll show up at your house on Sunday with some beer and say something like "IT'S BBQ TIME BUDDY!!!!" And because I gave you the Velvet Revolver tickets you'll have to agree, and pretty soon I'll be telling your girlfriend about the chick you hooked up with at the concert who it turns out had a *****, and wether or not you got the test results back from the clinic. In short, i'll leave you alone, should we ever meet, in exchange for a GMail account, thank you.



That got me an invite. Screw gratitude, you do not wanna know me.

[Noop]

^^ That was awesome

[MikeVic]

I asked for one for Professional-type use, instead of using my University account all the time.. and the only e-mail I got was a guy asking for $8 for a gmail.

[Franklinnoble]

I heart suicane.

[MJ4H]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

Yeah, 1GB of free e-mail space stinks.

Anything that can be accessed with PINE rulez

[NoMyths]

Wow...posted it, and a couple minutes later had an email offering an invite. Cray-zee.

[SirFozzie]

Here's how to get AutoComplete in GMail (from the help station

As you prepare to send a message by typing in an email address, Gmail's auto-completion feature suggests names from your Contacts list based on the letters you type. Keystrokes can add up, and this will save you a few seconds every time you send a message. Gmail orders your auto-complete list by frequency so that the addresses you send messages to most frequently appear at the top of your list. If you would like to view a list of your most frequently mailed contacts, click 'Contacts' at the top of any Gmail page, then click 'Frequently Mailed.'

[Passacaglia]

Hey...so you guys that got invites to gmail -- can't YOU invite people now?

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Hey...so you guys that got invites to gmail -- can't YOU invite people now?

People who have accounts may or may not get invites to send to other people, it's random.

[Anthony]

the swap that got me an invite:

My prayers (Quantity - 1 week's worth)
Author: Hell Atlantic (---.nyc.rr.com)
Date: 17-06-04 21:12

The world is a very lonely place. Often one must die in order to have people pray for them, but let's face it - by the time you see the light at the end of the tunnel your ticket has already been stamped and waiting for you.

No - wouldn't it be better to start amassing prayers on your behalf now? They're like chips you can cash in the big casino in the sky. Did you commit a sin that'll send you straight to Hell? No problem - by the time you die you can bank on having at least a week's worth of prayers to trade in for better accomodations (Purgatory). I'll start praying for you once I get the invite.

If I can get an invite within the next 24 hours I'll throw in a bonus night of prayers. That's 8 nights of prayers for your soul.

My uncle's (through marriage) old father once said - in broken English - "Life is short. Death is long".

Indeed...

[heybrad]

All I got was an email saying "Hey Brad"

[NoMyths]

Hrm...my swap ad was a bit too effective; I'm getting too many invite invitations. Guess I'll need to edit the profile. Fwiw, here's what I wrote:

I'm a starving, poverty-entrenched (yet award-winning!) poet, and in our spiritually-bankrupt times opportunities to contribute to the arts in meaningful ways can be few. Luckily, I am a real-life poet (tm). Published, even. A lot. And while I am abundantly solid on production ability when it comes to verse, I'm less so when it comes to obtaining a Gmail account. That's where you come in.

Become this poet's Gmail patron! In exchange for swapping me the account, you'll be assuring that all poetry-related correspondence (and there is a ton) that wing their electronic ways through the ether will carry with them the aura of your goodwill (not to mention this poet's very real appreciation). I will also be willing to compose an absolutely original, one-of-a-kind haiku in your honor to present to my illustrious benefactor.

Sadly, actual reward rarely comes to this eras poets. It's okay...we do it because it's what we have to do. While a Gmail account might not represent the most substantial of rewards this poet has received, it would certainly number among the most unselfish. So, please. And thank you in advance.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by NoMyths

Hrm...my swap ad was a bit too effective; I'm getting too many invite invitations. Guess I'll need to edit the profile. Fwiw, here's what I wrote:

I'm a starving, poverty-entrenched (yet award-winning!) poet, and in our spiritually-bankrupt times opportunities to contribute to the arts in meaningful ways can be few. Luckily, I am a real-life poet (tm). Published, even. A lot. And while I am abundantly solid on production ability when it comes to verse, I'm less so when it comes to obtaining a Gmail account. That's where you come in.

Become this poet's Gmail patron! In exchange for swapping me the account, you'll be assuring that all poetry-related correspondence (and there is a ton) that wing their electronic ways through the ether will carry with them the aura of your goodwill (not to mention this poet's very real appreciation). I will also be willing to compose an absolutely original, one-of-a-kind haiku in your honor to present to my illustrious benefactor.

Sadly, actual reward rarely comes to this eras poets. It's okay...we do it because it's what we have to do. While a Gmail account might not represent the most substantial of rewards this poet has received, it would certainly number among the most unselfish. So, please. And thank you in advance.

Send some of the extra invites out to friends, buddies, women you're trying to get to sleep with you, etc etc etc.

[Fidatelo]

Here is what got me my account:

Teachings of the White-Socked Ninja Author: Fidatelo (---.wp.shawcable.net)
Date: 16-06-04 21:33

I offer the teachings of the White-Socked Ninja. This includes a description of our clan, our reason for being, our mantra, our rules and regulations, and most importantly, our methods of sneakiness. Also included is a short description of our most infamous mission, written in rhyme.

These secrets have been sought after for ages, or at least 10 years. Many have tried to obtain them, but less than many have succeeded. You too can be one of the less than many.

[NoMyths]

Basically you have to be fucking weird, which gives people a bit of a grin. Which is okay.

[NoMyths]

dola...

Fida: Hell, man, I got away with a haiku. 5-7-5. Don't overwork yourself.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by NoMyths

dola...

Fida: Hell, man, I got away with a haiku. 5-7-5. Don't overwork yourself.

I know, I was young and foolish. It took me a couple hours to write out the document I had promised!

Can a person have more than 1 account? I might try again if that is possible.

[NoMyths]

I've got three now. Weeee!

[Solecismic]

I've tried a couple of times. No dice. How do the invitations work? Why are people asking for your name?

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Solecismic

I've tried a couple of times. No dice. How do the invitations work? Why are people asking for your name?

Jim, on the invite form they have to fill out a first and last name, i assume they could put anything down, my guy put in Suicane Stallone as the name on my invite. I just got another invite for singing the Gilligans Island theme song and sending it to a dude on MP3.

[Suicane75]

Dola,
When the guy asked for my name tonight I just made one up. They don't really need to know but if they're asking I don't think it's for unscrupulous reasons.

[korme]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I'll Leave You Alone
Author: Suicane (---.lambrv01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: 17-06-04 00:17

Ya know that guy at the party thats always hanging around and being unfunny, butting into conversations and being generaly abrasive, talking about how much he gets laid (when you know he only gets the chubby girls with low self esteem), how much money he makes (even though you know he can't even hold down a job at McDonalds cause he always punches the big mac button when someone orders a quarter pounder and the fry cooks all think he smells weird), and what money he does have he spends on beer for everyone else because they wont talk to him unless he's supplying alcohol, and you take him up on his offer only to realize that no amount of booze in the world is worth sitting around listening to him talk about who his favorite wrestler is and wether or not HHH should put over Eugene for 4 hours on a Saturday night, well i'm that guy......and i'll stop. How does that benefit you? Well simple, you don't me now, but maybe in a few years you will, maybe one day you'll walk into A McDonalds with a friend talking about the Velvet Revolver concert coming up and i'll overhear you and mention that I have tickets to the concert (of course i have tickets, i need your friendship) and i'll offer to give 1 to you, and you'll go and the vicious cycle will begin. I'll be calling you at 2am on a Saturday night when my pocket vagina is worn out and ask you if you wanna hang out, you'll be with your girlfriend of course and decline, but i'll show up at your house on Sunday with some beer and say something like "IT'S BBQ TIME BUDDY!!!!" And because I gave you the Velvet Revolver tickets you'll have to agree, and pretty soon I'll be telling your girlfriend about the chick you hooked up with at the concert who it turns out had a *****, and wether or not you got the test results back from the clinic. In short, i'll leave you alone, should we ever meet, in exchange for a GMail account, thank you.



That got me an invite. Screw gratitude, you do not wanna know me.

man, shades of good will hunting right there

[korme]

This is pretty weak and not very good, but it is 3:26 AM!

a vast array of nothing

Author: korme (---.cinci.rr.com) Date: 18-06-04 02:25 Why shouldn't I get a gmail account? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm checking my old email, somebody sends a message to my computer, something nobody else can see. So I take a shot at it and maybe I read it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I read well. But maybe that email came from the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have my email, they spam me and my friends and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get spammed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the techies to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a ****. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' spam. Just like it wasn't them when their email was checked, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the World Wide Web. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' carpel tunnel in his clicky finger. And he comes home to find that the company he used to get service from got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who induced him into getting the carpel tunnel in his hand got his old account, 'cause he'll only read for fifteen minutes a day and no reading breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install an isp that would sell us service at a good price. And of course the internet service previders used the skirmish to scare up prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at fifty a month. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time gettin' the internet back up, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic employee who likes to drink martinis and play games with the system, and it ain't too long 'til he ***** up, cuts the internet and kills all the email in the North. So my buddy's out of town and he can't afford to type from pay-for-time computer places, so he's got to write up a new resume in this new country for old service, which sucks 'cause the carpel tunnel is givin' him chronic migraines. And meanwhile he's bored 'cause every time he tries to get a good read the only reading material they got is Middle East language. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better with my current email. I figure it's gmail time.

[korme]

an original short story

Author: SackAttack (---.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Date: 18-06-04 01:43 There are many things I'm not. I'm not, for example, a professional athlete. I can't hit a 95 mph fastball. I can't hit a 3-pointer in 0.4 seconds. I can't run 100 meters in under 10 seconds. I can't carry a tune. Not with a bucket, not with a pickup truck, not even with a crane. I'm not an artist, not in the conventional sense. I can't even draw a circular circle, let alone anything remotely resembling humanity. I'm no great composer of music, nor am I much in the way of a musician (although I like to think I know just enough to be dangerous). Those are all the things I'm not. I am, on the other hand, a writer. A teller of tales, a weaver of yarns. Scherazerade I'm not, true. I lack the breasts for that. But I like to think that my stories are entertaining reads, if nothing else. Set me up with Gmail, and I'll write you a short story, 10-15 pages. If you have some specific situation in mind, I'll be glad to give it my best shot, but if you'd rather have something from the depths of my imagination, I can do that too. Or you can be a nice guy/gal and do it for the heck of it. It's up to you, really.

[SackAttack]

FWIW, it worked, although my "sponsor" asked for kind of a bizarre premise.

But what the hell, it's an excuse to write.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

FWIW, it worked, although my "sponsor" asked for kind of a bizarre premise.

But what the hell, it's an excuse to write.

Is that the dude who asked for the man to pretend he was a woman and the woman to pretend she was a man and then meet?

[SackAttack]

Right. Like I said, bizarre.

Why do I wonder, though, if that's taken from the dude's personal experiences?

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Right. Like I said, bizarre.

Why do I wonder, though, if that's taken from the dude's personal experiences?

I doubt it, it's probably just a really bizzare fetish.

[mckerney]

Thank you for the kind works Shorty.

[Neuqua]

Myself and Sackattack have been sending eachother quotes from the Godfather movies back and forth for fun and I just noticed that they now are advertising Godfather posters directly to the right of our conversation.

Interesting.