Gmail invitation
2004-10-22 by ahmed adel farid
Hi all
if anyone have a Gmail invitation, please i need one
my mail is ahmedadelfarid@yahoo.com
thanks a lot
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Gmail invitation
Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by Dave Mucha
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, ahmed adel farid <ahmedadelfarid@y...> wrote: > Hi all > if anyone have a Gmail invitation, please i need one > my mail is ahmedadelfarid@y... > thanks a lot > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! DONE !! Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? Dave
Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by fnatmed
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Hackett" <egroupscdh@W...> wrote: > > From: Dave Mucha > > .... > > Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? > > I might want one if I knew what it was :-) > > Can someone enlighten me? It's the new email service from Google. Lots of nice features, and sort of restricted in that you can only get an ID by being "invited" by someone else. Of course, once you get an ID, you also get five invites to send out to others. Come to think of it, I could use an invite as well. deano at areyes.com :) Thanks - Dean.
Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by Michael Haisley
oops he probably got a few to pass on...I sent one as well
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:40:49 -0000, Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, ahmed adel farid > <ahmedadelfarid@y...> wrote: > > Hi all > > if anyone have a Gmail invitation, please i need one > > my mail is ahmedadelfarid@y... > > thanks a lot > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! > > > > DONE !! > > > Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [AVR-Chat] Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by Chuck Hackett
> From: Dave Mucha > .... > Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? I might want one if I knew what it was :-) Can someone enlighten me? Cheers, Chuck Hackett "Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment" 7.5" gauge Union Pacific Northern (4-8-4) 844 http://www.whitetrout.net/Chuck
Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by Dave Mucha
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "fnatmed" <fnatmed@y...> wrote: > > --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Hackett" <egroupscdh@W...> > wrote: > > > From: Dave Mucha > > > .... > > > Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? > > > > I might want one if I knew what it was :-) > > > > Can someone enlighten me? > > It's the new email service from Google. Lots of nice features, and > sort of restricted in that you can only get an ID by being "invited" > by someone else. > > Of course, once you get an ID, you also get five invites to send out > to others. > > Come to think of it, I could use an invite as well. deano at > areyes.com :) > > Thanks - > > Dean. The offering is for 100 meg of space, forever. They want to hold your e-mail forever so you don't have to worry about storage and backing it up and all that. Also, one really nice feature is that it will put your e-mail into folders based on the topic. There is a yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gmail_invites/ to spread the offerings. I had 5 invites, used some, then they put me back up to 5. they want to expand slowly so as to not overload their systems. Yahoo e-mail jumped up to 100 meg about the time G-Mail started getting more press. Dave
Re: What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by Dave Mucha
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Bill Velek <billvelek@a...> wrote: > snipped stuff about Google's 'Gmail' and needing an invitation, etc. > > I'm curious whether 'Gmail' has anything that sets it apart from, let's > say, 'Hotmail'. I've had a couple of Hotmail accounts over the years > that I practically _never_ use, and then I guess they end up expiring or > something. I only use one in rare instances when I want to communicate > with someone but feel that there might be some significant chance of > getting severely spammed. Otherwise, I just use my regular email > address that my ISP has included as part of my monthly connection fee, > and with the filter that Netscape 7 provides, I get practically no spam > at all. The only significant spam nuisance that I am forced to contend > with is the crap that those assholes put on newsgroups. Does anyone > know of a filter that will work for newsgroups? And what makes Gmail > distinctive? > > Thanks. > > Bill Velek With Hotmail, you get spammed. When a guy at the office signed up for hotmail, he did spelled his name wrong. then went to check the wrong account a week later and it was full of spam. NO ONE knew of the account except MS. My g-mail is semi dormant, I don't like having to put in my password all the time. When I went last night to send an invite, it was ZERO SPAM. only one message in three weeks and that was from a person from whom I had requested information. I use Juno and Yahoo and find both to be very workable. Juno is changing it's service to strictly on-line, whereas it used to be a download to your PC and you store all your e-mail on your pc. Now you have to pay for that. Really silly as they offer free e- mail, but not free web service. This may eleminate the free e-mail part. And if you use dial-up, they have to have the local phone lines and if you read on-line it will suck up time. I think there is a conspiracy (pretty much about everything) that is trying to get all your e-mail on line. The reason is that as a business model, the download was really smart. OK, this has gone too far off topic for my sensibilities. I'll self moderate and not reply unless asked a direct question. Dave
What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by Bill Velek
snipped stuff about Google's 'Gmail' and needing an invitation, etc. I'm curious whether 'Gmail' has anything that sets it apart from, let's say, 'Hotmail'. I've had a couple of Hotmail accounts over the years that I practically _never_ use, and then I guess they end up expiring or something. I only use one in rare instances when I want to communicate with someone but feel that there might be some significant chance of getting severely spammed. Otherwise, I just use my regular email address that my ISP has included as part of my monthly connection fee, and with the filter that Netscape 7 provides, I get practically no spam at all. The only significant spam nuisance that I am forced to contend with is the crap that those assholes put on newsgroups. Does anyone know of a filter that will work for newsgroups? And what makes Gmail distinctive? Thanks. Bill Velek
Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by Michael Haisley
Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features, that are not present in most other clients. First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account. Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier. Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped with the original message, so that you can read them together, in context. The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago. -Mike
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:41:48 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote: > snipped stuff about Google's 'Gmail' and needing an invitation, etc. > > I'm curious whether 'Gmail' has anything that sets it apart from, let's > say, 'Hotmail'. I've had a couple of Hotmail accounts over the years > that I practically _never_ use, and then I guess they end up expiring or > something. I only use one in rare instances when I want to communicate > with someone but feel that there might be some significant chance of > getting severely spammed. Otherwise, I just use my regular email > address that my ISP has included as part of my monthly connection fee, > and with the filter that Netscape 7 provides, I get practically no spam > at all. The only significant spam nuisance that I am forced to contend > with is the crap that those assholes put on newsgroups. Does anyone > know of a filter that will work for newsgroups? And what makes Gmail > distinctive? > > Thanks. > > Bill Velek > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Gmail invitation
2004-10-23 by Michael Haisley
Dave, that should be 1GB :)
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:46:22 -0000, Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "fnatmed" <fnatmed@y...> wrote: > > > > --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Hackett" <egroupscdh@W...> > > wrote: > > > > From: Dave Mucha > > > > .... > > > > Maybe if others need one, you can pass on the favor ? > > > > > > I might want one if I knew what it was :-) > > > > > > Can someone enlighten me? > > > > It's the new email service from Google. Lots of nice features, and > > sort of restricted in that you can only get an ID by > being "invited" > > by someone else. > > > > Of course, once you get an ID, you also get five invites to send > out > > to others. > > > > Come to think of it, I could use an invite as well. deano at > > areyes.com :) > > > > Thanks - > > > > Dean. > > > The offering is for 100 meg of space, forever. They want to hold > your e-mail forever so you don't have to worry about storage and > backing it up and all that. > > Also, one really nice feature is that it will put your e-mail into > folders based on the topic. > > There is a yahoo group > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gmail_invites/ > to spread the offerings. > > I had 5 invites, used some, then they put me back up to 5. they want > to expand slowly so as to not overload their systems. > > Yahoo e-mail jumped up to 100 meg about the time G-Mail started > getting more press. > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by Bill Velek
Michael Haisley wrote: > Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features, > that are not present in most other clients. > > First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account. > > Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are > built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type > search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining > to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and > do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you > can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I > could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label > hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier. > > Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them > in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped > with the original message, so that you can read them together, in > context. > > The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really > don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly > search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago. snip Well, you and Dave have given great reasons to be using Gmail instead of Hotmail, but I'm still wondering if it is worthwhile to use Gmail instead of my regular ISP-email and Netscape 7 as my reader. For instance, my storage space is limited only by available space on my harddrives, and Netscape has a tremendously flexible and versatile search function, and it also includes 'labels' -- however, it does not permit _multiple_ labels per message, although I don't know exactly how much of a shortcoming that really is. Netscape can group messages into threads, too. Anyway, I don't understand the purpose of needing to be invited, and having limits on how many you can invite; that sounds more like a marketing scheme to me, to make it seem exclusive. I can't see how restrictions like that are going to eliminate or reduce spam. Cheers. Bill Velek
Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by Michael Haisley
Well, eventually (read: soon) it will be a free-for-all, the invite system was for BETA purposes, since google can control the number of invites, they can control the number of users, and increase the load as they go. I still have a couple of email accounts that I check via outlook, but for the most part, I really prefer the google interface. As far as storage limits, of course with outlook, I wouldn't have the limits, just my hard drive space, but speed is a major factor too, gmail can search my mail in less than a second, outlook would be very painful at this big of a mail storage. The spam reduction is a whole nother thing, google has done some nifty stuff in that front, including a general categorical filter that seems to fine-tune it's self as your mail store grows, ie: bayesian filtering, but it starts from a given point, instead of a blank slate. But, the biggest feature, at least for me, is portability, seemless portability, the client interface is just as good as outlook, and I can use it absolutely anywhere, if i'm at a public access terminal in a library I can pop on and have full access, if I am at a client site, same thing, all without being tethered to a few desktops/laptops with synchronization. -Mike
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:28:30 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote: > Michael Haisley wrote: > > > Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features, > > that are not present in most other clients. > > > > First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account. > > > > Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are > > built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type > > search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining > > to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and > > do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you > > can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I > > could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label > > hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier. > > > > Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them > > in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped > > with the original message, so that you can read them together, in > > context. > > > > The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really > > don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly > > search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago. > > snip > > Well, you and Dave have given great reasons to be using Gmail instead of > Hotmail, but I'm still wondering if it is worthwhile to use Gmail > instead of my regular ISP-email and Netscape 7 as my reader. For > instance, my storage space is limited only by available space on my > harddrives, and Netscape has a tremendously flexible and versatile > search function, and it also includes 'labels' -- however, it does not > permit _multiple_ labels per message, although I don't know exactly how > much of a shortcoming that really is. Netscape can group messages into > threads, too. > > Anyway, I don't understand the purpose of needing to be invited, and > having limits on how many you can invite; that sounds more like a > marketing scheme to me, to make it seem exclusive. I can't see how > restrictions like that are going to eliminate or reduce spam. > > Cheers. > > Bill Velek > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-23 by stevech
thanks - but rather than add to lessening privacy - I would choose to archive stuff on my own hard drives, since they are at $0.50 per GB these days. I use a 120GB to backup my 80's via Acronis which compresses well.
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-----Original Message----- From: Michael Haisley [mailto:mhaisley@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:21 AM To: avr-chat@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special? Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features, that are not present in most other clients. First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account. Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier. Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped with the original message, so that you can read them together, in context. The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago. -Mike On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:41:48 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote: > snipped stuff about Google's 'Gmail' and needing an invitation, etc. > > I'm curious whether 'Gmail' has anything that sets it apart from, let's > say, 'Hotmail'. I've had a couple of Hotmail accounts over the years > that I practically _never_ use, and then I guess they end up expiring or > something. I only use one in rare instances when I want to communicate > with someone but feel that there might be some significant chance of > getting severely spammed. Otherwise, I just use my regular email > address that my ISP has included as part of my monthly connection fee, > and with the filter that Netscape 7 provides, I get practically no spam > at all. The only significant spam nuisance that I am forced to contend > with is the crap that those assholes put on newsgroups. Does anyone > know of a filter that will work for newsgroups? And what makes Gmail > distinctive? > > Thanks. > > Bill Velek > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Links
RE: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?
2004-10-24 by stevech
Google's gmail spam reduction - do you think the amount of spam that google would eliminate would be less than the amount they would stuff into your email each day? Considering gmail is free- you could expect a LOT of ads.
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-----Original Message----- From: Michael Haisley [mailto:mhaisley@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:23 PM To: avr-chat@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special? Well, eventually (read: soon) it will be a free-for-all, the invite system was for BETA purposes, since google can control the number of invites, they can control the number of users, and increase the load as they go. I still have a couple of email accounts that I check via outlook, but for the most part, I really prefer the google interface. As far as storage limits, of course with outlook, I wouldn't have the limits, just my hard drive space, but speed is a major factor too, gmail can search my mail in less than a second, outlook would be very painful at this big of a mail storage. The spam reduction is a whole nother thing, google has done some nifty stuff in that front, including a general categorical filter that seems to fine-tune it's self as your mail store grows, ie: bayesian filtering, but it starts from a given point, instead of a blank slate. But, the biggest feature, at least for me, is portability, seemless portability, the client interface is just as good as outlook, and I can use it absolutely anywhere, if i'm at a public access terminal in a library I can pop on and have full access, if I am at a client site, same thing, all without being tethered to a few desktops/laptops with synchronization. -Mike On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:28:30 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote: > Michael Haisley wrote: > > > Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features, > > that are not present in most other clients. > > > > First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account. > > > > Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are > > built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type > > search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining > > to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and > > do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you > > can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I > > could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label > > hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier. > > > > Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them > > in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped > > with the original message, so that you can read them together, in > > context. > > > > The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really > > don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly > > search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago. > > snip > > Well, you and Dave have given great reasons to be using Gmail instead of > Hotmail, but I'm still wondering if it is worthwhile to use Gmail > instead of my regular ISP-email and Netscape 7 as my reader. For > instance, my storage space is limited only by available space on my > harddrives, and Netscape has a tremendously flexible and versatile > search function, and it also includes 'labels' -- however, it does not > permit _multiple_ labels per message, although I don't know exactly how > much of a shortcoming that really is. Netscape can group messages into > threads, too. > > Anyway, I don't understand the purpose of needing to be invited, and > having limits on how many you can invite; that sounds more like a > marketing scheme to me, to make it seem exclusive. I can't see how > restrictions like that are going to eliminate or reduce spam. > > Cheers. > > Bill Velek > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVR-Chat/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > AVR-Chat-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Links