Gee… Mail

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

I managed to score myself a Gmail account invite yesterday. For the unawares, Gmail is Google’s new email service that will offer a full gigabyte of email storage (with no banner ads) for free.

It’s also, for the moment, invite-only. That means that all the good names are being gobbled up by the elite, in-the-know, precious greedy few… like me! Invites are apparently such valuable commodities that people are making a modest profit on eBay from those poor saps who wanted but had to settle for .

There’s even a site where people can beg like dogs for invites.

So now that I have this magical Gmail account (with the username of my choice, thank-you very much), and I feel all special and privileged, I’ve got nothing to do with it since I use my own domains and hate web-based email.

But it sure is nice to have something that other people want!

Comments

5-18-04 · 7:57 am

poe says:

*beg beg beg* (like a dog)
what is the going price for the Gmail account? I do tattoos!
hrm… can’t stand my email addy because everyone else stole a simple reference to E Allen Poe for their mail long ago… *beg beg*
did i mention i link you? could be a bad thing though.
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