Tryin' to move this to -chat:
If anyone needs a gmail account for list mail, just reply off-list.. The spam filtering is pretty good, and the threading is great too...
Plus, gmail offers free POP access to the accounts, so you don't even have to use the web interface to read your mail! Likewise, anyone who wants a Gmail account can ask me as well.
Yes, I have 50 GMAIL invites that I would like to get rid of as well. Email me and I'll send you one.
I made efforts to get rid of my gmail invites, but they bounced. People read their privacy stuff and ran away....;.. the invite timed out & returned to me.
I used to send my invites to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , see also
http://isnoop.net/gmail/
But recently everybody seems to have so many invites, so I've given up on this. Sending your invites to isnoop instead of people you know is a Good Thing IMO, as it prevents Google from mapping my social network.
Background: I have heard that Google uses Gmail invites to keep track of the social network of Gmail users, something which with the right data mining tools can be *very* valuable to advertisement folks.
Disclaimer: The above is only a rumour and might as well be completely wrong, both as a fact (indicating some paranoia on my side) and also technically (indicating my ignorance about data mining etc. which is, indeed, abunding).
uli
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