Re: OT: Gmail accounts

> In a message dated 17.Mar.05 08:14:07 US Mountain Standard Time,
> craigwhite@azapple.com writes:
>         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.
> Traditional viral marketing involves giving the marketer a kickback.
> Remember the Paypal and C2it viral marketing blitzkrieg?  Especially
> in certain corners of the 'net, people got very desperate to get
> anyone to sign in below them for the $5 or $10 kickback.  Or similarly
> the paid-to-view-ads and free-large-item programmes where to get
> anything good from them one NEEDS referrals.

#2 - <http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles.htm>
      kickback is your connotation but not traditional
      definition of viral marketing.

#4 - general interest - cover language for ignoring the fact that
     all users on this list already have an email address.

#5 - I would suspect that most of the list users here want sex...
     would that justify promoting that fact here? Gmail is not
     about Linux or using Linux.

#6 - Different than posting free old hardware or free books? Those
     are things that are personally owned and the desire is to put
     them in the hands of others who could make good usage of them.

     Offering 'GMail' invites is merely the act of someone who is
     being used by the commercial interests of Google to spread the
     word of their product offering. Don't forget, drug dealers give
     away drugs to get customers. Apple gave .mac accounts away for
     free for a while and then switched to revenue. Google is a
     corporation and profit is their motive - not altruism.