About how long does it take to receive invite(s) to distribute once you setup your email account?

around 2-7 days

I have an account now, so you can take my name off the list.  Thanks Mike!

Im good too. Thanks.

I still didn't get one, can someone send me one?

info@styl-x.com thanks...

I would love one if anyone has one free.

Pretty Please

mailto:esmond.poynton@itsis.ie
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I just got my gmail account.I f i get invite i will try to give
I think the final cut will be relly kool.
by by msn an yahoo....(well not so soon )
Will thier be google messenger

If anyone gets a spare invite, please put me in the queue.

farkusmarkus@yahoo.com

Thanks!

Does anyone still need one of these darn things? > farkusmarkus did you receive an invite yet?

Nope. Got one?

Love your screenshot, by the way...

It's on the way. and thanks

You rock! Thanks!

By the way, just a word of warning. It's gMAIL, not gmale.

Do not type in gmale...

Will thier be google messenger

really? Interesting...

I have no issues with the interception of email messages.....Telecommunications has always been relatively 'public'...eg Ham Radio can be 'heard' by anyone/everyone with a set with the same frequency range.

The issue is that it appears the content will be 'modified' through advertising.

This 'commercialized' interception of private communication for profit or gain is something I won't be a party to.

This means I won't be getting a Gmail account, nor, more significantly, will I be corresponding with one.

Anyone wanting to communicate with me will need to retain a legitimate account.

30 years of dealing with Radio Communications under the Telecommunications Act means I won't be adopting Gmail.

whoa... didn't think of that.
hmmmmmm.......

what is evryone talking about what is the problem with gmail?

Jafo, While I agree with your statement:

This 'commercialized' interception of private communication for profit or gain is something I won't be a party to.

You also stated:

The issue is that it appears the content will be 'modified' through advertising.

The content of the email message itself is not 'modified'. The content of the web page that views the email is modified based on key words found in the email message.

I am not trying to split hairs here, I just don't want someone to think that the content of the message itself is modified.

By the way, are you a HAM operator? I have been since 1978.

This is a link to more info from Google

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/more.html#ads

This is just one paragraph from that page that refers to the scanning of e-mails - there is more:-


"All email services scan your email. They do this routinely to provide such popular features as spam filtering, virus detection, search, spellchecking, forwarding, auto-responding, flagging urgent messages, converting incoming email into cell phone text messages, automatic saving and sorting into folders, converting text URLs to clickable links, and reading messages to the blind. These features are widely accepted, trusted, and used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Google scans the text of Gmail messages in order to filter spam and detect viruses, just as all major webmail services do. Google also uses this scanning technology to deliver targeted text ads and other related information. This is completely automated and involves no humans.

When a user opens an email message, computers scan the text and then instantaneously display relevant information that is matched to the text of the message. Once the message is closed, ads are no longer displayed. It is important to note that the ads generated by this matching process are dynamically generated each time a message is opened by the userin other words, Google does not attach particular ads to individual messages or to users' accounts.

We recognize that seeing ads based on the content of an email message can be unsettling at first. Our experience has been that this feeling recedes as users become more familiar with Gmail. However, some people, many of whom have not used Gmail, have reacted by condemning all automatic scanning of email content, on the grounds that it amounts to a violation of privacy. We think this criticism is misplaced. All major email services, including Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, automatically scan email content for the benefit of users. When email messages are fully protected from unwanted disclosure, the automatic scanning of email does not amount to a violation of privacy."


Best to go straight to the horses mouth - unless it really is a gift horse of course in which case you should never look.

Our experience has been that this feeling recedes as users become more familiar with Gmail.

Any horrendous event becomes dulled through familiarity.....hardly a glowing endorsement or positive attribute....

Auto-scanning for virii, etc is a beneficial feature for the user [value-adding]....targeted advertising is not.

The latter purely is intended to be a revenue-raiser for Google, and its advertisers.

 

Gmail is not a 'gift-horse'....it is a 'Trojan horse'....don't be fooled either way.

 

Rocky....my father [VK3-DEK] is a Ham....been in Radio since Enigma and WW2 German Intercepts....me, I'm a Communicator/Observer with the FIA and FIM [Motor Racing]...

Your just cynical Jafo - next thing you'll be suggesting is that G-mail is connected somehow to Googles stock being floated on the market - paranoid much or what

This e-mail was certified threat free by Langley

I am first in line where I feel my privacy is invaded, and I have all spyware programs installed, yet I have no problem with a web site scanning the content of my emails in order to deliver targeted text advertisements if such a feature benefits to me, just as virii scanning and spam filtering also does.  How does it benefit to me? It helps the site get revenues that will enable them to offer me a truly amazing service. So far Gmail is by far the best online email service I have tried. It well worth the small inconvenience of the though that a dumb computer scans my emails in search of key words to determine what text add I should be seeing.  It's not like anybody really IS reading my emails.

Well, I've just taken a look at some of the kinds of adds that Gmail puts on the page when you're viewing emails. Seems to me that targeted advertising is a good idea. Keeps down on the annoyance factor, helps provide advertising to the right sorts of people who are looking for that kind of product.





I, personally prefer the ads that gmail uses as opposed to the stuff that I see on hotmail. What do you guys think?

Junk mail...junk advertising in your letterbox....waste of natural resources...wood-chipping of old growth forests for no common good.

People pay to not have banner ads on sites....people pay to have unadulterated emails.

I know what I prefer.