I would like to thank everyone who offered me a gmail invite on this forum. I have been trying for awhile to test gmail and you have provided me the opportunity to do so. Thank you once again.

Ive been using gmail for a while and to be honest its no way near ready for release.

I still cant send attachments bigger than 1 mb , lets face it most files are bigger than 1 meg
nowadays , and secondly the search function is not great or user friendly, i should have to go into help to know how to find a mail. !!!

They will have to be careful as it will take more than a name or a cencept for people to move from their Hotmail or Yahoo accounts.

Are there any plans for a messanger service ? Which messanger service can we use the gmail accounts on .???

Once I familiarized myself with the labeling feature,finding mail had never been so effortless. It is a total departure from what all other email providers have,i.e. folders etc. for organizing mail.It offers much more granular functionality in locating and sorting saved mail. Give it a try!

Won't be using gmail and won't be sending the 57 invites I now have in my barely checked mailbox. The logon process takes longer than yahoo, the spam protection isn't as well done (yahoo I've received zero spam in over two years, gmail I constantly have spam in the spam folder, and once I had 30 spam in my inbox.)

I like google search and it's toolbar, but google seems to have these great ideas but no final execution or followthrough on it's big projects. The desktop search application has been in a sorry state for 6 months, and many more of it's pet projects are just that: pet, forgotten about projects. This leaves me little confidence in a service like gmail that can't be at the whim of whether they feel like putting effort into it or not.

As an experiment I started a new gmail account about 4 months ago and never used it or posted the address anywhere.. amazingly enough that account still doesn't and hasn't had a single spam e-mail. If you don't want spam then my advice is to stay away from those porn sites.

to claim that gmail takes longer for login than yahoo, you must truly be insane. to claim that gmail allows more spam than yahoo, you must truly be insane. junkfood@gmail.com was created specifically to test spam filters. my inbox is 99.999% perfect.

if you want a gmail, email me with subject="gmail please" (without the quotes). as long as i have invites, i will give them out.

There is an option in your mailbox to close your gmail account. Or you could simply employ the time and effort to learn something new.

Why do I get the distinct impression that your posting has ulterior motives? Maybe it's because your observations about gmail are such blatant falsehoods-especially about the spam. Now be big enough to tell us all just what your real agenda is.

-A satisfied user of gmail

This is smart marketing. If you have 50 invites, you can convince people to use gmail much better than Gmail can (and waaaaay cheaper). So this is really smarter than opening it up to the public (for now).

I'd have to agree with you. It's a good marketing idea. So hats off to the google guys for having great ideas. I admit that I love Google. In my neck of the woods, it's an honor to be invited to open an account. Of all the invitations that I've given,which are many, only 2 people were not really excited to have been invited. But for me it goes deeper than that. Once I was invited, and began using all the organizational tools, alerts, advertising geared to my interest, groups and other marvelous features,I feel in love with the world of Google. Keep up the good work Googlexoxoxo

Yes its' time now that Google opens GMail to public.

Seen enough of folk begging for GMail invites.

Amit @ http://labnol.blogspot.com

Begging? Where are they begging @ MSN Kids R Us?
Try some english speaking P2P Network and your sure to find someone who cbf giving their 80yo neighbour one of their 50 invites.
Perhaps Google should just spam hotmail and yahoo accounts with invites instead of Gmail accounts. j.k, but I don't think Gmail is ready for a public release and it's no way out of Beta stages.
Some of the TOS points should be updated too to specify exactly how long our emails will move around Google servers until they see fit to delete them.

*I hope no one failed to see the irony that hotmail and yahoo accounts are famous for spamming all email accounts in general. even if the IP for the SMTP server isn't authentic hotmail(R) yahoo(R)

I have never begged for a GMail invite. I have asked nicely a couple times and even tried to win one when TSS were posting them awhile back but no luck. Then people were holding them hostage for favors like get me a free IPOD and I'll give you one. Whatever happened to the "Old School" internet when people were actually nice and helpful to others and it didn't cost you anything to share with others? I do still have faith in my fellow man......perhaps Santa will bring me one next Christmas!! Peace.

gmail me I will send an invite.

alan.mullinax@gmail.com

You evidently were either not invited or you are jealous and intimidated!

yea its alittle nuts because i gave out 10 invites then the next day i got 50 again. Im like wow ill never get rid of them

I couldnt get rid of the 6 I had left.... now I have 50! I havent got enough friends. (computer using ones that is)

if you want one just send an email to me at ABurton261@gmail.com just trying to help those's who werent lucky to get an account.
AS of 3:00am PST 2-15-05 i have another 45 left.

SPAM CITY!

yeah i get lots of emails asking for one, but i dont mind.

Anyone who wants an invite go here.

http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php

if it doesn't work try hitting "reload"

I would not mind having a gmail invite. I tried the isnoop pages but to no avail. Thanks to anyone who would send me one as it would be much appreciated.

the-stampman@abe.midco.net

Can I please get one of you invites.
my email: fredman_56@yahoo.com

Hi all,

Can somebody PLEASE send me an invite for gmail. I am doing a disitation on email for my college course and this would be of a big advantage to me.

Thanks a million

seanoz@hotmail.com

I am looking for the elusive gmail invite! Any suggestions would be helpful.

jweineraz@yahoo.com

I almost hope they keep it "invite only". However I have to say that I got 50 invites to give out and I cannot figure out who the heck to give them to. I have already given out invites to everyone I know who wants them.

LOL. I thought the same thing. I saw that I had 50 invites and was like, woah, who would I send those to!

This is great!! now my cats and fish can have gmail addresses also!!

But come on, who in the world needs 50 invites unless you are going to use it for spam or storage.

Hi,
I wouldn't mind trying out gmail if anyone has a spare invite.

Thanks

email to iwannagmailaccount@untraceable.freeserve.co.uk

p.s. just remove the

With all due respect, maybe you wouldn't need 50 invitations-but others could give them out with no problem (and to grateful recipients). Everybody's aquiantance list is different,both in volume, and in many other ways. I have trouble understanding why everybody doesn't "get It": Google isn't advocating some sort of exclusive, "stuck-up" club. Don't you see that Google is hoping, praying,believing that employing this method of putting the invitations in peoples mailboxes,for us to share with each other, will awaken the giving spirit-the sense of community in us.That way its a co-opertive,for we have all helped to build it!