Who Want's A Gmail Account?

[Ashley Weed]

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.

[Jillian B.]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Ok...I still have them. I did not see the link on the left side.

[Brandon Martus]

I've got 6 if anybody wants one. PM me.

[Joe Matt]

We've done it.

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

[Katie Reynolds]

I still have mine, too.

[Matt Attallah]

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.]

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. (We made a quick movie together.)

[Jay H 237]

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.]

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]

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!!!