OT- Gmail invites?

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Ok, I'd love to ditch my hotmail, and will hand out invites to all.

Put me down on the list for wanting a invite.  I use my "free" accounts
for any online transactions...just because it attracts so much spam.

-- 
Eric
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Marc Getty said:
>
> Well put Jody! If I were to trust the privacy of my e-mail to any
> corporation, Google would be high on my list.
>
> BTW: If you contribute any valuable feedback, especially a bug
> notification, to gMail, then they reward you with more invites.
>
> -Marc
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of jody
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:16 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re[2]: OT- Gmail invites?
>
> alright lets clear the air...poor google does a good thing and
> eveyrone hates them for it.  trust me...the ad system and screen for
> gamil is a lot, and i mean a lot nicer than hotmail/yahoo and the
> like.  faster as well...when it works (more on that).  heres an
> example of how the ads work for those that dont have an account...or
> cannot grasp the theory behind it.
>
> i was conversing with a gentleman about buying a hitch for my mk3
> jetta.  we had sent a couple messages back and forth.  this is a pic
> of the screen shot fo the email thread. ads that show up are based on
> keywords in the message...no different than the ads at the bottom of
> VWVortex that show ads for keywords in the threads. they try to target
> what you are talking about by filtering the words.  google doesn't
> care what your talkin about...nor does anyone actually see what you
> are talking about unless they want to.
> but guess what?  hotmail/yahoo can too, deal with it.  your email is
> not safe anywhere, period. they just want you to click through to the
> advertisers paying them.
>
> http://www.31daysinsk.com/screen-1.jpg
>
> basically a computer filters the messages sees the word 'hitch', cross
> references with what they got on file for paid advertisers and pastes
> them in.  and there is no banner ads or emails sent to you or anything
> like that.  to be truthfully honest i barely even noticed they were
> there.
>
> as for how gmail works...i like it.  i hate webbased, but the way it
> 'stacks' all our replies and keeps things organized, i dont mind it at
> all.  my only issue right now is that during the day, its kinda iffy
> to get in to your email sometimes.  lotsa 'busy' messages, but it is
> techincally beta testing we are doing yet so no complaints...i just
> wont use it for anything that might be important.
>
> the invites i imagine are a random thing that gmail keeps track of.
> they will only give out more invites when there servers are ready for
> more people.  simple.  right now they are still trying to gauge what
> kind of server response times they are getting with the storage of so
> much mail...i would imagine there is a system as to WHO gets the
> invites, but as for how many...i bet that is out of the control of the
> end-user.  they will not give out more invites than their servers can
> handle.
>
> as for privacy, they are no worse in the user agreement than any other
> free webbased email service, or your own ISP for that matter.
> basically if you dont want someone else knowing what you are
> saying...then just say it to the ears you want to hear, simple.  gotta
> use your head on the internet and google is no more evil than any
> other company out there.  they are just trying to put together an ad
> system that makes sense...the general public is just not able
> understand the idea of an actually intelligent advertising
> system...therefore fear is insited because they heard the word
> filtered and assume that means someone watching the messages and all
> this bad talk about google flies everywhere.
>
> in conclusion...i've said it before and i will say it again.  gmail
> gets my two thumbs up as far as webbased email goes.  and i would
> rather see ads about hitches in my conversations about hitches than i
> would ads for feminine products or hair removal. HTH that helps anyone
> with questions about gmail.
>
> jody
>
>
>
> M> T Berk wrote:
>
>
>>> btw- Folks?,  be aware that the offsetting reason Google is
> offering
>>> both 'free' email and such a large mail box is they are filtering
> the
>>> mail that you get for key words and using the results to send you
>>> targeted ads that relate to subjects they think you might be
> interested in.
>
>
> M> They're not "sending" you targeted ads.  They place the ads in the
> M> same piece of screen real estate as when you use Google for a
> search,
> M> so you're not getting spam from Google in your inbox...  While I'm
> M> the first to be alarmed at anyone "spying" on my emails, there is
> no
> M> human looking through my emails, and the only time any human will
> M> read ANY of my mail stored at Gmail is with a search warrant.
> Still
> M> makes me feel a bit weird, but I'm sure Yahoo and Hotmail are no
> less "secure"...
>
> M> Mark.
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