[ale] What's so special about gmail invites?

[Christopher Fowler]

Wow.  It is only on invite basis?  I did not know that.  I'll have to
thank one of my engineers for inviting me,

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 22:08, Drew West wrote:
> except that if you were me, you didn't get mosquito because that was
> already taken, so you just used your domain.  i think the special part
> about them is that you can't just go register.  though i'm convinced
> there will never be open registration.  i think it will always be on
> an invite only basis.  just a guess.
> 
> -drew
> 
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:56:49 -0400, Vernard Martin
> <vernard at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> > > see $subject, just curious I guess,
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > Currently, the only way to get a gmail account is to get an invite from
> > someone that already has a gmail acct and has invites available. the
> > reason you want a gmail acct now is so you can get the email address
> > that you want versus having to settle for something else. The reason you
> > want gmail versus some other system is that it gives you the largest
> > email quota availble on a free email system, it runs on a very fast
> > hardware platform and it uses a nice easy-to-use interface that means
> > you never have to delete email and yet still can sift through it in a
> > fairly reasonable and fast manner.
> > 
> > Vernard
> > 
> > 
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