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

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

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

info@styl-x.com thanks...

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

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

It's on the way. and thanks

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

Do not type in gmale...

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.

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

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.

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

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?