Re: OT: Gmail accounts

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: OT: Gmail accounts
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 07:54 -0500, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:36 am, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:45 -0700, Celti wrote:
> > > I just have one URI: http://isnoop.net/gmail/
> >
> > ----
> > #1 - anyone can get gmail account now just by going to www.google.com -
> > it's listed right on the page
> >
> > Gmail invites are now officially meaningless
>
> I don't see what you're talking about.

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just tried again...

www.google.com

right in the middle of the screen

New! Get Gmail - Google's free email service with 1000 MB of space.
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> >
> > #2 - Gmail invites was viral marketing at it's worst. It encouraged
> > gullible people to 'promote' the google brand and it's products on
> > various message bases even though it is a commercial venture which by
> > all rights is an effrontery to this message base. Some would call this
> > 'list spamming.'
> >
> > Craig
> >
> If it's list spamming, I didn't see it that way and didn't take offense at it.
> I wanted to sign up and didn't see a way to do it. I'm glad he offered to
> share his invites.
>
> Just another POV...

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you're entitled to a point of view - but it is nothing more than viral
marketing - Google getting saps to push their product to others - get
them to talk about Google.

Craig

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