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07/06/2006 02:41:09 PM · #26 |
Even if they did start charging, I'd most likely pay. I love Gmail. Coming from AOL, it's a breath of fresh air. It sounds geeky, but I don't know what I'd do without it - there's no other provider I can stand to use.
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07/06/2006 02:41:52 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
One note about Gmail:
Be careful about becoming totally dependent on it, especially using a pop client as a front end. While Gmail is in beta (has been for a long time now) it is free. I'm estimating that they will probably charge for certain services in the future. |
Is this just personal speculation to try to scare us all to death, or are you basing this on published information somewhere? Just curious. :) |
It says somewhere in the "TOS/Join Gmail" stuff that it is a Beta and they may someday start charging. Personally, I think it's a CYA thing for them, but who knows.
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07/06/2006 02:49:32 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
One note about Gmail:
Be careful about becoming totally dependent on it, especially using a pop client as a front end. While Gmail is in beta (has been for a long time now) it is free. I'm estimating that they will probably charge for certain services in the future. |
Is this just personal speculation to try to scare us all to death, or are you basing this on published information somewhere? Just curious. :) |
It's personal speculation based on evidence. Other providers of this service charge for certain aspects of the service. My estimation is that there will always be a free web-based email from google with certian limitations of storage space. Google targets advertising at the web-based mail client but they can't do that when you are using a pop3 client, so that part will probably not be free.
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07/06/2006 02:53:49 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
One note about Gmail:
Be careful about becoming totally dependent on it, especially using a pop client as a front end. While Gmail is in beta (has been for a long time now) it is free. I'm estimating that they will probably charge for certain services in the future. |
Is this just personal speculation to try to scare us all to death, or are you basing this on published information somewhere? Just curious. :) |
It says somewhere in the "TOS/Join Gmail" stuff that it is a Beta and they may someday start charging. Personally, I think it's a CYA thing for them, but who knows. |
I'm not seeing that in the current version, which refers to Gmail as a "free, search-based email application".
I'm just curious as to the real likelihood of future charges. Sure, they may have the "right", but they could also charge for searching, and THAT isn't very likely, since the "searcher" is the consumer, required for advertisement to work.
Of course, cable TV gets by with it! |
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07/06/2006 03:09:08 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by k4ffy:
you can actually also sign up with a mobile phone. you enter your #, they send you an auth code, you enter it back in and they give you an account. |
Learn something new everyday!
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07/06/2006 03:22:32 PM · #31 |
if anyone els needs an invite email me at troymosley@gmail and i would be happy to send one to you
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07/06/2006 04:38:19 PM · #32 |
Do remember that if you use your mobile phone to get an addy, that mobile number will then be attached to your email addy in Google's databases...
:) |
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07/06/2006 10:03:58 PM · #33 |
I have a couple hundred invites on 2 different accounts so I can take up any slack too.
pm if interested |
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07/06/2006 10:18:42 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by TomFoolery:
With our powers combined we can GMAIL the world !! |
my email addy: crayon@dpchallenge.com
:)
Message edited by author 2006-07-06 22:19:10. |
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07/06/2006 10:47:09 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by TomFoolery:
With our powers combined we can GMAIL the world !! |
my email addy: crayon@dpchallenge.com
:) |
How did you do that? |
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07/06/2006 10:55:49 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by TomFoolery:
With our powers combined we can GMAIL the world !! |
my email addy: crayon@dpchallenge.com
:) |
How did you do that? |
I was just kidding, seriously.
but wouldn't it be kinda nice? |
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07/06/2006 10:57:32 PM · #37 |
Ah, I thought there was some sort of masking you could use with gmail...
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07/06/2006 11:52:46 PM · #38 |
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07/07/2006 01:57:46 AM · #39 |
96 left, feel free to PM me with your email
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07/07/2006 03:46:35 AM · #40 |
Personally I doubt very much that Google will charge for the features that the average person would want in gmail - they make plenty of $$$ from adwords and that pays for the service...
BTW I'm another gmail fan. I have used webmail for years (have found ISPs to be too changeable to be tied in to them and hotmail is too spammy). I love the autodraft feature - if your internet / PC crashes while you are composing an email you will find that gmail has automatically saved a draft of your message - you'd be unlucky to loose more than one sentence... |
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07/07/2006 05:36:52 AM · #41 |
Basically anyone who already has gmail will have an effectively unlimited supply of signup invitations to send to other people who want to sign up. Each person's bucket of invitations is capped at 100, but the bucket gets refilled periodically.
So if anyone ever wants an invite, just send a message to any of the gmail users who posted or to me, and we can supply you with an invite or five.
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07/07/2006 01:15:05 PM · #42 |
I also have more invites than I know what to do with. PM or email me if you want one.
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07/07/2006 02:57:30 PM · #43 |
yeh - I have some to give away, just PM me and its yours.
Mike
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07/07/2006 03:25:07 PM · #44 |
same here I still have 93 to give away now
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07/19/2006 09:00:10 AM · #45 |
Thank You Di for the G-mail Invite i have mine all set up now.....
Cjmphotography@gmial.com |
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07/19/2006 09:17:34 AM · #46 |
| well for those who won't be able to have any gmail invites, you could try www.inbox.com and get a free 2 GB web-based email... i don't work for inbox.com :-) i just think it's worth a try (",) |
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07/19/2006 09:20:32 AM · #47 |
| I have 98 invites left. I have both a gmail and an old Yahoo account. I really don't see that the gmail is all that much better than Yahoo. Plus, I often have trouble accessing it from home. |
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07/19/2006 09:37:01 AM · #48 |
Originally posted by vikas:
Originally posted by Melethia:
Out of curiousity (and possibly ignorance), what's a "gmail invite"? I thought gmail was an email service of Google - I plan to look into it to establish a non-ISP-dependent email address. |
and others who have no idea how gmail is better than almost any other email providers..
1) It offers POP mail access
2) Has an in built chat application
3) Filters for spam is much better
4) Setting up Filters to sort your own email is an easy task
5) No crazy banner adds, just text adds (that can be easily blocked if using firefox)
6) Much faster, searching for email is like using google to search something over the web .. uses the same search engine
7) Mails kept in conversation mode, makes it so much more simple to track an email
8) and did I mention over 2.5GB of space which keeps increasing!
No I don't work at Google, just admire the amazing technology they bring in the market!
So if you need an invitation .. 98 left! gmail me at garg.vikas@gmail.com |
My favourite feature is all the storage space, and the fact that it's webmail, accessible from any PC.
-PLUS-
I have 9 different email addresses (from domains I own) pointing to my one gmail address. I can send/receive from any of these addresses I please, easily, from my one gmail account, same as OE.
Because I own my own addresses, they are portable, and if I feel I'm being raped by Google in the future, I can just point them somewhere else.
:-)
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