Right, this Gmail thing is up and running, but it seems that it's staying invite only at this point in time (sounds like orkut.com). So I've decided to start a bit of a invite distribution program. The only catch is that when you start getting invites to hand out (they come in packs of 3) that you donate 1 to this page. The next problem is how to decide which one of the snatching masses will get the invite.... If you're interested leave your name, mail, and a one-liner on why you should get a gmail invite. Person offering the invite gets to choose who it goes to.
gmail tool: (via WikiPedia:Gmail?) http://www.gpopper.com/ - a POP3? tool to replace the now defunct PGtG? - donationware - if you use it, leave a comment below
GMail? now have their own new mail notifier, or you can use DynAdvance which works with more than just GMail?. An alternative to the (temporarily not working) pgtgm is psGmail, but it costs $8.
anti-gmail opinion: (via AcuteApathy?, just for NPOV) Gmail is too creepy
invite spooler: "offers a place for people with Gmail invites and those who want them to come together with minimal effort and fuss"
GMail Drive shell extension: creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail? account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail? account directly from inside Windows Explorer.
Person | number of invites remaining | Has invited |
NurmRas | 3 | InfernalRabbi, SunChaser, d@vid, FuzzyTeddy, JMcDaid?, BlueHands, BabyAcid, LordUnter, PlosiGuant, arb KoL? player, me mum, work guy, rest to the spooler |
SynKronos | 0 | YetiBe, Duncan, Colleen, GnomeThing, Shathley |
TheJuan | 0 | Reuel, Andy, GarethMojo |
SunChaser | 3 | ShadowVsMan - they love us. more invites! |
d@vid | 2 | HeraldofRethwellan, PseudoNym, me dear old mum, WombatBoy, friend-of-SynKronos, Bronwen (KZNRPA), 2 missing? |
ShadowsLight | 11 | GeekDotNeo |
AndieMoore | 1 | Not a silly sausage. |
InfernalRabbi | 6 | |G0ld3nAng3l, s0m3 0th3r p33ps |
SworDschool | 2 | Ryan and Theo, who count as CLAWs people from the past and no-one in the hell else seems to want gmail invitations any longer because we've most likely hit a stage where everyone is accounted for. |
MyrdemInggala | 5 | ElfBoy; someone on the CLUG mailing list called Sven; a meellion other people on CLUG, twice; Yancke, Claire, Patrick. |
GoldenAngel | 0 | my lecturer and a few other people |
GeekDotNeo | 6 | none yet. beg me, bitch! |
AcuteApathy? | 6 | - |
FirstFallen | 6 | - |
TalTos | 2 | - |
FuzzyTeddy | 6 | - |
BabyAcid | 6 | - |
Bast | 5 | Lots of KoL? ppl, Stephen Croome, Dylan Craig |
YetiBe | 6 | Kim |
Person | reason | |
(cleared comments here, check history if you want to read them - or add back as wanted)
If you have too many invites and don't know what to do with them, please add them to the invite spooler (sent an invite to gmail@isnoop.net) -- NurmRas
Woah! The spooler's awesome :) I'm gonna watch it for a bit, and then prolly give all my spare invites to it. -- SynKronos
You know what? At this rate, we can give a free gmail account to every new CLAWmember who joins during orientation, along with coke. I'm serious. Hopefully the little buggers will actually use the internet then. - MyrdemInggala
are you suggesting telling them about this page, or just taking email addresses as they sign up? also, there's a benefit of inviting them directly rather than via the spooler, in that the inviter gets their email address when the invitee joins up - d@vid October 26 2004