I know about GMail Swap, but that seems lame. I've got two invitations left. Anybody want a GMail account?

In short, why I love my GMail:

- I've .forwarded all of my e-mail there as well as keeping it at home. When I'm on the road, GMail is significantly faster and easier to use than IMAP. It comes up faster. The GUI is actually an elaborate JavaScript thing, complete with keyboard shortcuts. Everything about it is fast.

- They support SSL. In normal usage, only your password is sent over SSL, but if you put https in front of the URL, you get the whole thing over SSL -- nobody's going to watch your session if you're using a wireless network.

- Search is fast. Really fast.

- The advertisements are so unobtrusive that I generally never even notice them.

My only gripes with GMail:

- The spam filtering could be better, although you can "report" spam quickly and it immediately disappears.

- My T-Mobile cel phone, when acting as my ISP, seems to not allow any connections over SSL. I suspect they just block port 443 or something. The result is that I can only get into GMail if I already have the appropriate cookie, and obviously have to do it in plaintext.

I would certainly appreciate one.

I'd like to try it out if you have another invitation.

Thanks

me me me

add my name to the list if one is still available

Invitations are now gone...

I agree. GMail totally kicks butt. The interface is the best I've seen in a web-based e-mail client.

I gave away all my invitations last night, but I expect to be getting more soon. I'll post here if I have any more to give away.

I'd really like an invitation from anyone who's got one. There are at least two account names I want to create in Gmail to make sure that no one else gets them.

faq_master@gmail.com?

Damn. I've been trying to track down an invite for months. Anyone else that has one palease let me know. I'm sick of Imp. I've been using blogger since they were in a basement in SF and was one of the first to sign up, but damn if i didn't fall into the invite window.

Imp?

Imp

Ahh. Okay. Dibs on an invitation as well. Sucky about how short you can have the name tho.

Speaking of which, anybody want an Orkut invite?

Anybody want a GMail account?

Does a bear.....oh never mind.
Yup, I'd appreciate one if anyone has an invitation to give out.
Thanks.

Damn. I need a sucky job where I can get away with checking the BBS every minute...

/me checks time of posting.

...that isn't also in the last timezone to wake up.

If anyone gets another invite, feel free to sling it my way.

I too have 2 more gmail invites. PM me if anyone still wants/needs one.

You have PM...
-Zeke

Anyone else have extras? I'd love to take one off someone's hands.

Matthew

> I'd love to take one off someone's hands.

Wouldn't we all. Demand is seriously outstripping supply. I wonder how long this invite thing is going to last. I doubt I am going to be able to get one until they quit this and just open it up for everyone.

Anyone gotten an invite and then been unable to get it to work? Mine times out when I try to click on the link.

negative. mine worked properly, as did the first three that i sent to people.

Put me on the list of Gmail wanna-bes.

Ditto, I'd love to try it out

Hugo

Yahoo mail was just upgraded to 100MB. BFD.

As Fark said, Yahoo's also planning to start an online music service offering 1/10th of what the competition is offering.

Thanks, Dan and Tom, I've now got the gmail accounts that I wanted.

Now it would be nice if I could use it. After clearing my cache and cookies, it's back to its old behavior. Any time I surf to http://gmail.google.com , it gets instantly redirected to this:

https://gmail.google.com/?dest=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail

And then THAT page fails with "The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."

If I try to reload THAT, it appends yet another set of "dest=" stuff and the end and does another redirect ad infinitum.

https://gmail.google.com/?dest=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail

I just signed into my account using that link. Worked fine. I am using Firefox 0.9.

Crap. Works for me under firefox too. Why would it fail so horribly in IE?