Gmail now open for all comers

Post by **117** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:03 pm

Google on Wednesday said its Gmail service is now open to anyone who wants an account. Previously the service, which provides users with 2.8GB of e-mail storage space, has been by invitation only.

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Post by **fac51** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:52 pm

hmmm... still use hotmail and it's fine.

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:23 am

hotmail is my spam account, personal correspondence goes through gmail with a spam-rate of 0

Post by **mr mixin** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:32 am

Is it called gmail, or googlemail? I know a couple of people who have signed up in the last 6months or so and have gotten @googlemail.com accounts, which doesn't really have he same ring as a gmail.com account.

Post by **fac51** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:19 am

never had 1 spam mail in my hotmail account in god knows how many years I've been using it.

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:16 pm

^^^^mixy - they changed the name in the UK to googlemail due to a legal battle which they conceded. If you sign up from a UK IP nowadays you get an @googlemail.com extension, but there's ways around that if you don't like it

also i'm told that if you send mail to user@gmail.com it will still get to user@googlemail.com

^^^^^^^^edwardo - my hotmail account gets more spam than a spam factory on record production day, and i'd say 50% of it goes straight to the inbox

Post by **fac51** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:37 pm

well you must have signed up for a lot of porn using it because as mentioned i've never had any :alt:

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:55 pm

I have a separate account for all my porn signups

Post by **mr mixin** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:21 pm

117 wrote:also i'm told that if you send mail to user@gmail.com it will still get to user@googlemail.com

Well it won't because it's a six character minimum user name requirement jobbie for registering

Post by **117** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:09 pm

replace "user" with "mr_mixin_is_a_pedant" then....