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Ashley Weed 24-09-2004 21:03

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I have been furious about the spam... I check my mail 20+ times a day, and easily have 50 new spam messages in there each time. I checked a couple that seemed somewhat harmless for their sources and most spam in other accounts in the past have actually stated the full "name"@account . com/net however I noticed on a few in Gmail, its just "similar name"@ gmail.com. It's almost as if Gmail sends the email to the account that "most resembles the to: address. :mad:

Jillian B. 24-09-2004 22:54

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I haven't had a single problem with spam yet, and I'm surprised. My AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo are basically spam collectors now. Even my AIM is barraged with IMs from spammers. But g-mail for a month or two, and still spam free.

And I REALLY use my g-mail. I use it for all my FIRST e-mail.

Have to say, so far I am thrilled with g-mail. The organization it provides is great.

Jill

evulish 25-09-2004 03:38

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if early-adopters are getting spammed. Maybe some others recall if you logged into gmail with a username that didn't exist or one where the password was just wrong, you'd get two different responses. Great way for spammers to figure out what names were available. I imagine there are spam bots hammering away at gmail's server. Maybe some trying to create usernames.. and if they already exist, spam them! Who knows.

tkwetzel 05-10-2004 14:52

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I had 6 invites...and the message just disappeared today. Has this happened to everyone else? Is g-mail about to open to everyone? Anyone else with ideas?

Wetzel 05-10-2004 14:54

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tkwetzel
I had 6 invites...and the message just disappeared today. Has this happened to everyone else? Is g-mail about to open to everyone? Anyone else with ideas?

I've still got mine.


Wetzel

KyleGilbert45 05-10-2004 14:54

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tkwetzel
I had 6 invites...and the message just disappeared today. Has this happened to everyone else? Is g-mail about to open to everyone? Anyone else with ideas?

My invites are still there. On the left side underneath the left tool bar (Inbox, Drafts, Sent Mail, etc)

tkwetzel 05-10-2004 15:05

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Ok...I still have them. I did not see the link on the left side.

Brandon Martus 05-10-2004 15:06

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I've got 6 if anybody wants one. PM me.

Joe Matt 05-10-2004 15:19

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
We've done it.

We've saturated the forums with gmail accounts. WOW. Never thought this would happen.

Katie Reynolds 05-10-2004 18:32

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
I still have mine, too.

Matt Attallah 05-10-2004 18:36

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JosephM
We've done it.

We've saturated the forums with gmail accounts. WOW. Never thought this would happen.

Same thing I thought.

I have 6 that's just sitting...

Ryan M. 05-10-2004 19:35

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
We need to find a new outlet for these. Seriously, does anyone know of a forum or something which would take them? I've got 12 just sitting. Actually, I gave one away to someone I 'met' while playing a game of Halo. That's how desparate I am. :D (We made a quick movie together.)

Jay H 237 05-10-2004 20:56

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryan Morehart
We need to find a new outlet for these. Seriously, does anyone know of a forum or something which would take them?

Don't forget about Gmail4Troops.
(I know it's been mentioned a few times in here)

EDIT: I just read the Gmail4Troops page and they temporarily closed the donations page but they plan on opening it up again at some point. I'll suggest just checking occasionally.

I haven't recieved any invites in awhile though.

Lately I've been having issues with not being able to access my Gmail account. It seems like it's down from time to time. Sometimes I have to wait 15-20 minutes and other times almost a whole day! :( I didn't change any settings with Gmail or my LAN connection. All I have to do is wait and it will magically work again when it feels like it. Hopefully it's just a bug that they'll get fixed before they release Gmail to the public.

Ryan M. 06-10-2004 14:52

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jay H 237
Don't forget about Gmail4Troops.
(I know it's been mentioned a few times in here)

EDIT: I just read the Gmail4Troops page and they temporarily closed the donations page but they plan on opening it up again at some point. I'll suggest just checking occasionally.

I haven't recieved any invites in awhile though.

Lately I've been having issues with not being able to access my Gmail account. It seems like it's down from time to time. Sometimes I have to wait 15-20 minutes and other times almost a whole day! :( I didn't change any settings with Gmail or my LAN connection. All I have to do is wait and it will magically work again when it feels like it. Hopefully it's just a bug that they'll get fixed before they release Gmail to the public.

I haven't had any problems with Gmail. Interesting.

Yeah, I had donated some invites to Gmail4Troops just before it closed down. They never even took them...

Joe Matt 06-10-2004 15:36

Re: Who Want's A Gmail Account?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryan Morehart
I haven't had any problems with Gmail. Interesting.

Yeah, I had donated some invites to Gmail4Troops just before it closed down. They never even took them...

Same here. Never got any emails back. And that was back in August!!!


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