A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

OK, my major e-mail address is now my gmail address. Now I was sitting back and thinking: "Man, this gmail thing is sweet, 2gbs of storage, any @gmail.com that you want ..." (and he did speak at nationals :D )

And then it hit me!

Have you ever been sitting back and said: "Man I want to get in touch with team xxxx, but I just don't know what e-mail to use, which person I need to talk to, and their website is down or doesn't have a contact list!"

Well I have a solution!

Say you want to get in contact with the FIRST team 447 (my team, lol)

447.FIRST@gmail.com

every team, simply takes 5 minutes and makes a (team number)(period)FIRST@gmail.com

and it goes on for FLL and VEX too xxxx.FLL@gmail.com xxxx.VEX@gmail.com

team leaders can use the AMAZING gmail notifier

http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-help...x?promo=gdl-en

(I had already made 447.FIRST, thats why i said that and not 447.FRC)

IF ANYONE WANTS AN INVITE, SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR TEAM A GMAIL ACCOUNT, just post here (to move this up, so more people can see it) and send me an e-mail at 447.FIRST@gmail.com

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That's a really cool idea!

And you easily have it forward to the leader's email address too

~Stephanie
Team 1351

ps- i <3 google and gmail rocks! smschmit@gmail.com & any other ones i feel like making with my 90 invites. need one?

[edit] THAT WAS MY 100TH POST!!! [/edit]

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yeah I guess I'll help with the invite thing

xiagox@gmail.com

by the way

already got

1597.FIRST@gmail.com

and

039.VEX@gmail.com

for my team :D

* While making the account for my vex team I noticed the user name
(i.e. 39.vex@gmail.com) cant be less than 6 characters long (they might not count the period (.) )

So I made it
039.vex@gmail.com

and I think (for simplicity) all VEX or FLL teams that have less than 3 digits should follow the same format, so anyone can remember how to contact you ;) *

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Good idea!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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My god. . . .. RUFUS!! This brilliant!!. . . I've had GMail for about. . . . . 3 days and I refuse to use anything else!!

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I'll help out with the GMail invites, as well. Each account only has 50 invites, so if you or your team would like an invitation to create a GMail account, e-mail me at: lindsay.quyle@gmail.com

Great idea, Rufus! :D

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great idea Rufus.

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Excellent Idea. Gmail is a great tool.

We also use a gmail account for a workspace for the mentors on our team. We have discussions by reading and replying to the threaded emails. We save and share documents this way also. Good Stuff :cool:

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Interesting idea.

If you happen to be the team leader, but already have Gmail, don't forget you can have emails forwarded!

See my sig if you need an invite.

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Welcome to the party

yay 1403.first is created (PM if you want to use it)! this is an easy way to get a contact email for all the teams. Yay!

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Sounds like a good idea. We already have a gmail account for our team though, so you may want to mark down on the list that we are team1504@gmail.com

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I think that this network is a great idea!

Team 1027 has joined in on the action,

1027.FIRST@gmail.com

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Team 45 is in.

45.FIRST@gmail.com

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The nice thing about everyone having the same format is there doesn't need to be a list. If I want to contact team 383, I automatically know its 383.first@gmail.com.

Having a different e-mail address (even if it's still gmail) defeats the purpose.

Like Rufus said, if you want to use a seperate e-mail address, set up 1504.first@gmail.com and set it to forward to whatever address you want.

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Great idea!

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Mitty Robotics has just joined the network at 1351.FIRST@gmail.com

This really was a great idea, rufu5. Thanks for thinking of it!

~Sarah

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Excellent idea, 269.FIRST@gmail.com is now up and running!

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1023.FIRST@gmail.com is on board. :)

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Team 836 is now online, 836.FIRST@gmail.com

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Thats a great Idea! ill have Lisa make one ffor our team

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Wow. . . .Rufus this has really taken off. . .. :ahh: :ahh:

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well i was thinking, we may have a great format. But we don't have anyway of archiving them on one easy to use page. So I created....

First Gmail Network-A Google Group

Now any team that has one can join the group. When you feel like it you can browse the member list and you got a contact on a bunch of teams. The more teams we have, the easier it will be to find that team you've been trying to contact, so if you haven't yet, Make one!

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237 is on board
237.first@gmail.com

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It's funny this comes up. Next season I am having all of my students create & use g-mail as their robotics team e-mail. Each student will have an e-mail of student340@gmail.com, maybe I will change it to student.340.FIRST@gmail.com. Many of the students have already gotten on board so I probably won't. Oddly I still need to create one like that myself. I have been using g-mail for the better part of 6 months & I have found it better than any other public e-mail system out there.
To continue on with this thread I will create 340.FIRST@gmail.com right now. This really is a great idea as long as somebody checks the team e-mail.

Nice thinking

... 340.FIRST@gmail.com is now created & so is jrees340@gmail.com. both are linked so there is no need to send to both.

Again great idea, now it's time to look into a google group account for the team. I will have to compare it to our team's yahoo group account.

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Team 1640 now has 1640.FIRST@gmail.com

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Team 114 is now on board, 114.first@gmail.com!

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GOOD IDEA

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WOW! :ahh: I'm glad this is taking off!

Great idea! I hope everyone will take the extra step and join this too.

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This is a great idea. 555.first@gmail.com is created.

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I jump on the bandwagon. 226.first@gmail.com

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1501 is IN

1501.first@gmail.com

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So is Team 48.

48.FIRST@gmail.com

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I'll have to talk to our student leader when she comes back before i make one of these, but it sounds like a really good idea if you want other teams to be able to get ahold of you. And i have noticed that Gmail is a good Email service, though i use msn the most personally.

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As much as we'd like to think it, every FIRST team doesn't read Chief Delphi. If the logic behind this Gmail system is sound (and I think it is), perhaps someone "in the know" could contact FIRST and ask them to send out an email blast to all teams suggesting they set up an address using this new format? As previously suggested by many, each team leader could then simply set up a mail forward to their preferred email address through the Gmail settings. Those who did not want to open themselves up to contact from other teams could simply choose not to participate, although I hope there wouldn't be too many people who picked this option.

I only suggest this because access to the Team Contact database through TIMS was removed this past season, I believe due to privacy reasons - some people didn't want their private emails shared with others. Instituting the Gmail solution provides a nice, safe buffer to protect their true email addys from any malicious evildoers, and it makes it much easier and faster for people to contact representatives on other teams (a very important aspect of organizing something like a pre-ship scrimmage, an event we stage every year in February).

Please FIRST, spread the word so inter-team communication can be improved.
In an era where FIRST is decentralizing their administrative duties and spreading them to a regional level, having a tool like this could only help the regional staffs improve communication to their local teams. Perhaps this will help improve awareness and attendance at events like the team forums, which many teams did not even know about?

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Reading this makes me think they could make some kind of contact system which automatically forwards to the TIMS team leader (ie: team47@email.usfirst.org ) and doesn't require an additional gmail account. Of course this would require initial work on FIRSTs part, but it would keep it centralized and auto-updated based on TIMS updates, and wouldn't depend on GMail.

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Suits me, Brandon! As long as there's some form of "easy" team number based method of communicating with teams. Scouring through team websites (assuming they have them) and searching the yellow pages looking for school district phone numbers, all in an effort to locate a team's leader, is a major time-consuming chore!

Of course Google and FIRST are now good buddies so I'm sure a Gmail-based communications system would be a positive-PR bonanza for both. :)

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Agreed, I've been thinking that while reading this thread as well, since it also poses less potential for violating Gmail's terms of use. When I first signed up they had a policy against having more than 1 account but I can't find it now. Even if they don't really enforce it, as a group we should try to respect their wishes (like I said though, I can't find anything forbidding it at this time, but they change policies like that regularly).

The other problem I see with this Gmail setup is that you don't really know who's on the other end. Is it the team admin and/or someone who can "speak" for the team? Nothing against any of you who have created the accounts here, but if I had something important to communicate to a team I don't think I'd trust this method to work. How do you even know that if you contact "2175.FIRST@gmail.com" and it goes through that it really is someone from team 2175, and not someone else trying to cause trouble (just because you wouldn't do this doesn't mean someone else won't).

Expanding on Brandon's idea, I think it'd be neat to have a URL redirector, so that http://team111.frc.usfirst.org would redirect to 111's web page. That would make it easy to find any team's website (as long as they registered it with FIRST), AND you could use it for the email forwarder (admin@team111.frc.usfirst.org). This way, the service could also "fail gracefully" when the information isn't available. Team 2175 hasn't registered their website? Then http://team2175.frc.usfirst.org displays a nice "We're sorry, but this team has not registered their website." message. Same thing for email: anything sent to admin@team2175.frc.usfirst.org would be returned, perhaps with any other relevant information "This team has not registered an admin email address, but they have provided a website available at http://team2175.frc.usfirst.org."

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Well based on Dave and Brandon's comments, having FIRST set up their own team email solution would be ideal, but it would require FIRST to take further action on their own. Who can find out if this is something they'd be willing to do for the community? I think this is a badly-needed service. I think if FIRST came through for us, you'd see everyone unquestionably adopt their new system, but without such a system in place, you're going to continue to see these "home-grown" ideas appear on Chief Delphi. Lacking any other viable alternative, it's great to see people suggesting their ideas for improving communication within the community.

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While having FIRST come in and hold our hands for us sounds great, the GMAIL solution I have proposed leaves it up for the teams to create this network for themselves. A "home grown" solution such as this happens in every facet of industry, and with a little nudge, takes off and becomes a standard.

This method of communication would be for general contact between teams, such as getting a head engineers contact information, asking general questions, or getting in contact with other students you meet during competition. You wouldn't be sending super secret encoded robot schematics. I know there is a chance for "e-mail stealing" but its a necessary risk, in my opinion, to overcome this "contact gap" that we have now.

I would love it if someone with "high up" connections in FIRST could get them to send an e-mail blast urging teams to join this network to stream-line team to team communication. I don't know what the "TIMS" system was, but it didn't seem to work, considering its gone now. I would really like to know more about it so we don't make the same mistake that it did.

And this is what FIRST is all about as well: High school students coming up with ideas that help out entire groups of people, while not relying on adults or engineers to come up with the ideas for them.

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Rufus:

TIMS stands for "Team Information Management System". This is the primary interface team leaders use when creating new teams, registering for regionals and the championship, updating team contact information, etc. TIMS used to have a feature which allowed team leaders to look up the contact information of other team leaders, but that feature has been discontinued. An email system like the one you are suggesting would go a long way toward restoring that capability, and then some.

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Thanks!

Someone posted earlier, I believe, that that section was taken down because of privacy issues. The Gmail system wouldn't have that problem and like you said earlier: "Instituting the Gmail solution provides a nice, safe buffer to protect their true email addys from any malicious evildoers, and it makes it much easier and faster for people to contact representatives on other teams." Gmail Will Prevail!

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1002 just got one and is now in the GoogleGroup

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LONG LIVE GMAIL!!

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Team 702 just joined at

702.first@gmail.com

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ill help with more accounts mechabunny@gmail.com

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I have a gmail account but I rarely use it (the point being that I wanted some easy way to check my e-mail at work, but gmail seems to barf on UNIX browsers). How does one give out invites? I'd be willing to provide some.

As for my team joining in, I'd be more than happy to create the account, but I'd like to clear it with the student leads or faculty advisor first.

This is a great idea, whether FIRST does it or it is done through GMail. A while ago we wanted to contact team 348 but didn't have any contacts. It would have been much easier if we'd just been able to send to a central e-mail address that we automatically knew was theirs?

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I've never had a problem with FF on a Linux box... :shrug:

There should be a blue box in the lower left corner of any Gmail page.

Hm... maybe I'll setup a quick PHP frontend for adding team contact info to a database. The one thing to figure out is how to prevent spam. :)

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If you have just made a gmail account you will not get invites until you have had your account for an extended period of time. When you do get them, there will be a small box on the left, under your tool bar, that says "Invite a Friend"

If anyone on here has a team around them, or a rookie team they are helping with, let them know about this. Like was said earlier, not everyone uses ChiefDelphi, so get the word out to those who do not :D

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My company uses Sun Solaris workstations with Netscape 4. I've tried asking for FF or an upgrade to a later version of NS, but they won't do it, and I don't have install permissions.

If I try to use Terminal Server (windoze emulator for Solaris), that's even worse.

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I made a very quick and dirty PHP->MySQL storage place for FIRST contact emails which is up at http://traherom.homeunix.net/contacts.

It isn't very special, just gives you the ability to associate you team number (and type, so VEX, FLL, and FRC are all supported) with any contact information you specify. If you need a record edited or deleted, email or PM me.

--EDIT--
Please redirect comments on the database to this thread. Thanks.

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PantherTech 292 is in!

292.FIRST@gmail.com

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

I've created 1168.FIRST(at)gmail.com.

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Just as a reminder two GREAT systems have been set up since this small idea was released.

First we have the FIRST Gmail Network group started up by cdr1122334455
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/FirstGmailNetwork

and the FIRST contact database set up by Ryan M.
http://traherom.homeunix.net/contacts2/display.php

I encourage everyone to set up your teams info on both of these and utilize these AMAZING tools.

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(claps hands)
Awesome idea!!!

75 can now be reached at 75.FIRST@gmail.com

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This seems like a good place to post something like this...

I have a Gmail account and my invites are languishing un-used, so I whipped up this little page:

http://www.davedelong.com/php/gmail.php

Basically, you type in your email address, and you automatically get a GMail invitation. I keep a basic log of IP addresses and emails to prevent people from taking all of the invitations, but that won't stop some of the more determined people.

So yeah.... free invitations, either for yourself or for this nifty FIRST networking idea....

Enjoy!

Dave

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MrToast, would it be possible for me to get that script?

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I would also like to get a copy of that script if at all possible. That is an awesome idea!

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Yay! Interested people! :D

The source is available in a .zip file here (hopefully you know PHP):
http://www.davedelong.com/php/gmail.zip

It's four files (3 php files and a pic) and a Read Me file (please read it!). If you don't want to have the whole "blacklist" stuff, well then hopefully you know enough PHP to comment that out.

I apologize for the coding style... I wanted to get the page up quickly and so my coding style may be a bit shoddy.

Enjoy!

Dave

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648.FIRST@gmail.com :D

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Ive added SWAT

771.FIRST@gmail.com

now don't all jump at the chance to email us ...

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166.FIRST@gmail.com AND joined the group.

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Just a reminder that you can get free invites for yourself or your team here:

http://www.davedelong.com/php/gmail.php

My invites respawned themselves, so I'm back up to about 46 already....

Dave

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This is Great

204.FIRST@gmail.com

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The gmail notifier is good, and forwarding is a great idea, too.
Another useful thing that Ximian Evolution or Thunderbird (or Outlook >shudder<) aficionados can put to good use is the POP capability. To use, log in to gmail, go to settings, and then the Forwarding and POP tab. And just as the name demonstrates, this is also how to set up forwarding. The instructions from Google make setting up your POP/SMTP client setup a breeze!

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I think that its great but I was thinking once everyone has a gmail account for they team, we put a list of all the teams that have one on one post or when can separate it from each state, so we contact teams in our areas.

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Good idea. WIth that, it doesn't even need to be gmail. However, gmail has wonderful capabilities such as sending 20MB attachments, so we should definitely push to have people move over to google (as everyone has been suggesting ;) ), or use an even better mail service (your own colocal server, etc.)
[EDIT] I originally signed up for making a script like that, but second thoughts say that simplicity is better. If there comes a need, however, email me and I'll be happy to do it.[/EDIT]

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Only problem with that is you can't edit a post after 24 hours. You could recruit a mod, I guess. :)

Or maybe I could add it to the FIRST Contact Database. :)

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team 1345 has an e-mail address: 1345.FIRST@gmail.com and is on the gmail group =)

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Team 303 now has 303.first@gmail.com and we joined the group. We will now hold our breath till the emails come pouring in.

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662 is now registered at 662.FIRST@gmail.com though I've set it up as just a shell account to our mentor's box :) BTW, I've got more invites then I know what to do with, so if anyone wants one just shoot me an e-mail. Please e-mail me at cyberguy34000@gmail.com not the above address as it is just a shell for our team's mentor.

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This is pretty cool.
486.first@gmail.com

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gmail rocks i mean you have soo much space and its lick chatting w/ iother people i have gmail and am really glad

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Yeah... ChiefDelphi isn't exaclty the greatest place to give out invites. Too many people already have 'em. :)

You guys who just saw this thread should check out this one as well. ;)

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1620.FIRST@gmail.com is online

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But not online in the FIRST Contact Database!

(Man, I'm starting to spam. There's got to be a pill for that.)

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Frog Force is in :)

503.FIRST@gmail.com

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It is truly awesome how many people have embraced this communication possibility. I just found the download for a new tool by Google, that will tie in seamlessly with the framework already in place with gmail. It's Google talk. The buzz has been around for a while, and now you can download it:

http://www.Google.com/talk/

All you do is sign in with your gmail account and BAM! your own instant messaging tool based on your gmail account.

My personal account is rufus.cochran@gmail.com drop me an IM when your team is on line :D

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already downloaded it and got it installed.

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Spartan Robotics is online at 971.FIRST@gmail.com!

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Lightning Robotics has one 862.FIRST@gmail.com

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In addition to our original email (team159@alpinerobotics.com) we now have 159.first@gmail.com

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Nice. Technojays, Team 94 from Southfield High can now be reached at:
94.FIRST@gmail.com
We respond to email within 24 hours. If not, you get a full refund.

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Be sure to add it the FIRST Contact Database. ;)

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Sounds like a great idea! I love gmail, plus with the new google talk we can instant message between teams! Our new address is 564.FIRST@gmail.com

I am also more than willing to give out invites!

-D Mazza of team 564

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I would like to create a list for the "contacts" section of GMAIL, so it could be easy for us to contact teams in our area or out of state. Everyone could use this.

This is my idea

Team Name and State or Country, and your team's Gmail

I will start the list.

ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com

Then the next team will put they team name and what country or state your from and then your team's gmail contact so that way we could have a continuous list.

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Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com

As the season approaches, hopefully this tool can be tested to its fullest extent! :D

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ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com
Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com

This what I meant by.

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ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com
Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com
1093.VA: 1093.First@gmail.com
(The next team copys the above list and then adds they contact information at end and then post).

Please follow this.

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ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com
Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com
1093.VA: 1093.First@gmail.com
Braughtswurtz Robotics : 1571.FIRST@gmail.com
(The next team copys the above list and then adds they contact information at end and then post).

Please follow this.

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GREAT GREAT IDEA!! i was thinking something like thsi for the team.. because when our mentor sends group emails he is considered spam in hotmail and many members have problems.. so i made an email address called team1596@gmail.com taht he can sent ALL the emails to and all the members could have the password.. .


but having one for each team is a great idea.. and what a great way to increase knowlege of gmail and boost pr for larry :D .. that was definately a highlight to going to atlanta.. i just wish i coulda shook his hand.. he is definately one of my idols .

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Aces High 176 is up and I will contact other CT area UTC teams to get theirs up also!

176.FIRST@gmail.com

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1596.FIRST@Gmail.com is up and running

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I'll help I have 100 invites kornpopmg@gmail.com Just let me know and I'll talk to my mentor about g etting one for our team and hopefully have it up by tmw. This is a really good Idea and I love g-mail it rocks!

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1018.FIRST@gmail.com is up ... Don't forget to add your information to the FIRST Contact Database

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ERV, NJ: 204.FIRST@gmail.com
Team Roboto, 447, IN 447.FIRST@gmail.com
1093.VA: 1093.First@gmail.com
Braughtswurtz Robotics : 1571.FIRST@gmail.com
Robolution, ON: 1620.FIRST@gmail.com

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Yes, please do. :)

(And I saw the original message because I have a subscription here. The database was down for a few hours because of a power outage. Sorry. :D)

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tada! list of all known email addresses made per this thread.. . some others may have been made but not announced.. maybe someone can contact the ppl on this list and see if they added to the first contact database.. and or tell them how to use gmails neat forwarding feature to send all emails to the mentor / whoeever is in charge of emails to ensure its going to be monitored.
EDIT: I MADE A SORTING PROGRAM AND ITS SORTED NOW :D
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45.FIRST@gmail.com
48.FIRST@gmail.com
75.FIRST@gmail.com
94.FIRST@gmail.com
114.FIRST@gmail.com
159.FIRST@gmail.com
166.FIRST@gmail.com
176.FIRST@gmail.com
204.FIRST@gmail.com
204.FIRST@gmail.com
226.FIRST@gmail.com
237.FIRST@gmail.com
269.FIRST@gmail.com
292.FIRST@gmail.com
303.FIRST@gmail.com
340.FIRST@gmail.com
383.FIRST@gmail.com
447.FIRST@gmail.com
447.FIRST@gmail.com
486.FIRST@gmail.com
503.FIRST@gmail.com
537.FIRST@gmail.com
555.FIRST@gmail.com
564.FIRST@gmail.com
648.FIRST@gmail.com
662.FIRST@gmail.com
702.FIRST@gmail.com
771.FIRST@gmail.com
836.FIRST@gmail.com
862.FIRST@gmail.com
971.FIRST@gmail.com
1018.FIRST@gmail.com
1023.FIRST@gmail.com
1027.FIRST@gmail.com
1093.FIRST@gmail.com
1345.FIRST@gmail.com
1351.FIRST@gmail.com
1403.FIRST@gmail.com
1501.FIRST@gmail.com
1504.FIRST@gmail.com
1571.FIRST@gmail.com
1596.FIRST@gmail.com
1597.FIRST@gmail.com
1620.FIRST@gmail.com
1640.FIRST@gmail.com
021.VEX@gmail.com
039.VEX@gmail.com
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i will maintain this list and repost it every page or two of this thread.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/short1_main/sortEmail.t (the program i made to sort if anyone is interested in looking at it...) notepad works to open it...

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

The above email address for team 1504 is not being maintained by our team and will not be used. Anyone needing to contact our team may do so at team1504@gmail.com. Kevin, please read the response email for more information

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Thanks a LOT! Now how about sorting that list by team number ... :yikes: :ahh: ;)