Re: TECH: how do I get a flippin' gmail account?

On 4/22/05, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Guys, I'm getting teary-eyed thinking of the kindness of all you gmailers!
> *wiping eyes*  I've had about seven or eight invitations, I'm so touched;
> and I've gone to the page, set up my fake name, set up my new password,
> twice, checked the question for security, written out the weird little
> conlang word in the box, agreed to the terms of agreement, and it puts me
> back in the same bloody page and asks for my password again.  I've tried
> several passwords, I tried logging on, none of the passwords WORKED, and now
> I'm wondering what I did wrong.
>
> Do they want my real name in the first and last name section?  I've been
> putting in some ridiculous things, because I don't want my REAL name, not
> even "Sally Caves," to be displayed when I use this dratted thing.  Is that
> the problem?  They want the name that's associated with my scaves
> frontiernet account?  When you an invite do you give my name and I'm
> supposed to repeat it?  Will they keep that secret?  Or can come on line as
> the name I've picked and that's it?
>
> How many of the rest of you have had difficulties with this thing?
>
> Lips trembling with frustration...
> Sally
Hmm, I'm not sure what the problem might be, but they don't want or need
your real name (well, they might, officially, but how would the automated
account setup  program know what's real?). They don't know about your
frontiernet account, so it's nothing to do with that.

If you fill out that page you described wrongly, it should just point out which
field you made a mistake in, and ask you to correct it. Since you mentioned
it asked you for the password again, I guess (unlikely as it sounds) that you
got the password bit wrong. It asks you what you want your password to be,
and you should give the same password, twice. You repeat it to make sure
you typed it exactly as you want it.

I just tried setting up an account there to see the signup page again, but
I couldn't see anything else that might confuse.

BTW, for anyone looking for a gmail account, and for any gmailers looking
to make use of excess invites, http://isnoop.net/gmail/ does a nice job
of redistributing them. There's a couple of other such sites, too, if that
one happens to be out of invites. Just google for "gmail invites" or
"gmail invites spool" or whatever.

I've set up a gmail account just for conlang, since it's the most active
list I read, and that way I can set the damn Reply-To as the list
address :). Only problem is that it's awkward to log into both it and
my normal gmail account at the same time (maybe with two browsers?),
so I actually just use the POP access with the mail account, and
download that to my mail program (which kind of defeats the purpose).

s.
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