gmail invites

[Stephen Hart]

Hi Tony, ...In a msg of <25 Aug 04>, ***@hotmail.Com wrote:

S> anybody really desperate for one can hit my website...you don't have
to
S> jump through too many hoops, but you'll help me test AND the invite will
S> be free...

I got your e-mail but, having no shame, I'll reply here. Just in case
there are other Users249 message area regulars who (like me) are only
now being dragged into the twentieth century, I'll ask the following
question:

What exactly are you offering?

...What with the long hot summer and my habit of only
using a few of the available Internet options, I've never even heard
of this stuff.

...Please assume that I'm horribly mortified! <grin>

TTYL, ...Steve

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Death before Disembodiment!

[Pardoz]

On 26 Aug 2004 16:20:12 -0500, Stephen Hart

Post by Stephen Hart
Just in case
there are other Users249 message area regulars who (like me) are only
now being dragged into the twentieth century, I'll ask the following
What exactly are you offering?

Gmail invites. Short version: geek bragging rights.

Long version: Google (who you have, presumably, heard of) are getting
into the email biz (a la Hotmail, Yahoo mail, etc.). Their new freebie email
service (Gmail yclept, natch) is still in an invitation-only closed beta stage.
They periodically increase the number of beta testers by providing each
current beta tester (ie. everybody who currently has an account) with a
certain number of invitations they can send to others to join the beta test.
In addition to bragging rights, the service itself seems cool (1 gig of email
storage ain't to be sneezed at), and as a beta tester you get first dibs on

Post by Stephen Hart
...What with the long hot summer and my habit of only
using a few of the available Internet options, I've never even heard
of this stuff.

Sorry, but you lose 10 Geek Points.