Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Cox
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:03:57 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it interesting how many people are concerned with sending email > to gmail users yet are quite willing to send email to public mailing > lists that are archived and indexed by Google. There is in most cases a significantly lo

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-13 Thread Curtis Maurand
Hell, I couldn't even log into it. The system was "Temporarily unavailable" when I tried. Curtis Petri Helenius wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone really believe that people will use gmail as their one and only email account? Perhaps they are really using it for trading DIVX encoded mo

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-13 Thread Petri Helenius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone really believe that people will use gmail as their one and only email account? Perhaps they are really using it for trading DIVX encoded movies. After all, the cost of sending a DIVX encoded movie from one gmail.com mailbox to another gmail.com mailbox is relati

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> And here I thought I was the only one to seriously consider blocking gmail > (to and from) because of the security implications. I find it interesting how many people are concerned with sending email to gmail users yet are quite willing to send email to public mailing lists that are archived

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-12 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Sep 12, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Maybe those of you who created accounts using the links provided by todd could post some invites. NOOO! No more Gmail on NANOG! Before anyone does such a moronic thing, please note that all people subscribed here, or reading the

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Nakul Malik wrote: Maybe those of you who created accounts using the links provided by todd could post some invites. -Nakul Before anyone does such a moronic thing, please note that all people subscribed here, or reading the archives, now and for the future have access to the accounts from tho

RE: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-12 Thread Nakul Malik
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Mitchell - lists Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 30 Gmail Invites The weekend is quiet and I know that many of the people on this list still desire a gmail invite/account. So, here's a list of 30 invites. First come,

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-12 Thread Nicholas Suan
> I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server > - for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server. For those > who can't, public mail servers are all "scary". Gmail is no more scary > than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other > m

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Daniel Senie wrote: And here I thought I was the only one to seriously consider blocking gmail (to and from) because of the security implications. Hope you are blocking every non-personal mail server on the planet. I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own pe

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 11 21:58:47 2004 > From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 30 Gmail Invites > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:54:16 -0400 > > >

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Daniel Senie
At 10:54 PM 9/11/2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Vixie writes: > >i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. > >not just "anyone on nanog". anyone, anywhere, ever. the reasons "why not" >are compelling enough. but there are n

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Vixie writes: > >i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. > >not just "anyone on nanog". anyone, anywhere, ever. the reasons "why not" >are compelling enough. but there are no counterbalancing reasons "why to", >either com

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Richard Welty
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:33:40 -0400 Chris Brenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 22:26, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. > But..but..but..it's "special". You have to be invited. ;-) well, i think at this p

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Chris Brenton
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 22:26, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. But..but..but..it's "special". You have to be invited. ;-) C

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Paul Vixie
i still can't understand why anyone would want a gmail account, free or not. not just "anyone on nanog". anyone, anywhere, ever. the reasons "why not" are compelling enough. but there are no counterbalancing reasons "why to", either compelling or otherwise. i just don't get it. the approach

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread J.D. Falk
On 09/11/04, some dork with a gmail account wrote: > The weekend is quiet and I know that many of the people on this list > still desire a gmail invite/account. So, here's a list of 30 invites. > First come, first serve. Please use only one invite and save the rest > for others. Ho

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Joe Provo
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:44:10AM -0600, Todd Mitchell - lists wrote: > > The weekend is quiet and I know that many of the people on this list [snip] 'Quiet' isn't a bad thing. In an operations context it is a GOOD thing. Please don't mistake volume for value. Followup to /dev/null. --

30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-11 Thread Todd Mitchell - lists
The weekend is quiet and I know that many of the people on this list still desire a gmail invite/account. So, here's a list of 30 invites. First come, first serve. Please use only one invite and save the rest for others. Enjoy. Todd