So I can set up Outlook to take emails that are addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and have the words 'gmail' and 'invite'
anywhere in the subject line and put it directly in the old bit bucket?
Then again, I may not choose to limit this behaviour to just email from this
list.

Now, to change the address line of this email, so that I don't send it to
the list and annoy anybody else....
(There's a strange man standing behind me.... No! don't press that send
button! I haven't changed the To: field yet! Noooooooo.......!)

Regards 

Darren Tracey
Systems Analyst
HR Systems and FastTrack, Web and Integration Services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Austin 
> Sent: Friday, 12 November 2004 10:37 AM
> To:   CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject:      [cfaussie] Re: [OT]: GMail Invites
> 
> I don't think the invite only system was a marketing thing, but more
> of a technical one.
> 
> Google are very careful with new features; putting them in public beta
> for a long time, gathering feedback etc. They are progressively
> introducing POP access for Gmail, you  may or may not have it yet.
> 
> The invite system let's them control the signup rate and load. Imagine
> how much disk they would have to buy if they just opened the
> floodgates and expect 1,000,000 users within the first six months?
> That a max of 1,000,000GB.
> 
> Thats 1 petabyte of required storage. :) (mmmm, petabyte...droool)
> Sure not everyone will be using 100% quota etc, but that is the
> ceiling.
> 
> This lets them scale efficiently; they probably looked at the history
> of hotmail and said "hmmm, lets do this right".
> 
> But then again, the marketing dorks might have had a say in the process.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:40:28 +1000, Scott Barnes
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > GMAIL has to be the smartest marking campaign to date, the whole "its
> > invite only, sorry". It entices people to go "ooer, if its invite then i
> > want one, because i don't want to be left out" even though its a classic
> > pyramid scheme anyway (ie if you signup, and you get 5 other friends to
> > signup, then you will be cool). The only thing stopping it from being
> > illegal would be a reward of some kind for getting friends to signup.
> > 
> > Gotta love google, smart folks there.
> 
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