gmail up for grabs

[Brett Dikeman]

At 11:30 AM -0500 12/31/04, SJ wrote:
>  > From: Brendan Walsh <audicted42 at gmail.com>
>>  Subject: gmail up for grabs
>>
>>  5 accts, first come first serve. Email Off list please.
>
>WTF is a gmail account, and why would we want one?

www.gmail.com

>Hey, I just created 5 Yahoo email accounts . .and will give them away for
>ONLY $5 each !    New Years Special !   WowZeeeee . .what a deal!!!!

He's offering them for free.  Gmail is still in somewhat limited 
"public beta", which means that to get an account, you have to be 
referred by an existing user- and they only have so many referrals 
available to them.  You can't just load up the Gmail homepage and 
sign up.

Gmail is turning out to be a serious curse.  The quick-reply message 
encourages supreme laziness, quoting the entire message in the user's 
reply.  Gmail also now includes a mostly useless header called 
"DomainKey-Signature" which is several lines long, serving no purpose 
than to waste bandwidth.

Brett
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