Re: CHAT: GMail (was Re: Return.)

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 19:43:11 -0400, Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 22:11:56 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
> <christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> > En réponse à Chris Bates :
> >
> >
> > >How do you get a Gmail account? I want one but I couldn't find a
> > page to
> > >sign up. :(
> >
> > You can't. You need to be invited by someone who already has a GMail
> >
> > account to get one. Each new GMailer gets a number of invites that
> > he can
> > distribute to whomever s/he wants. I frequent a few geeky places
> > where
> > people are begging to get invited :) . I don't. As I said to some of
> > them,
> > I will never trade privacy for mail space.
>
> i really don't see what the big deal with gmail is when aventuremail is
> so much better... 2gb of space, no ads, and the site says they will
> have ssl encrypted e-mail soon...
>
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> robert wilson
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past 1 gig, what's the point? I have 2 gigs with my SBC yahoo account,
so i've got three gigs total. But really, size doesn't impress me much
(No, i really am not a size queen). What's nice is the way things get
organized, to me.