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Gmail accounts.
2004-05-01, 4:40 AM #1
I'm making a small list of accounts I want. All the obvious ones I wanted were taken in hotmail and any other mail service. So I am going to be poised at my keyboard to sign up at least 3 accounts the day Gmail goes live.

How about you?

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2004-05-01, 4:43 AM #2
Accounts are already selling on ebay for 200 dollars or more. Also, apparently there is a six-letter minimum for account names.

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2004-05-01, 4:49 AM #3
I also want some g-mail names.

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2004-05-01, 4:59 AM #4
I cant wait until it opens

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[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2004-05-01, 5:24 AM #5
i want to know how on earth the one gig works?

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2004-05-01, 5:39 AM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DSettahr:
...Also, apparently there is a six-letter minimum for account names.</font>


Son of a *****! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-05-01, 5:40 AM #7
They figured out they could provide that for $32 per account [I think]. They can easily make that back from the advertising revenues that services like Hotmail and Yahoo can't generate.

[Edit: How about "GBKGBK", GBK?]

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2004-05-01, 6:09 AM #8
Or "gbkrox".
2004-05-01, 6:32 AM #9
"GeeBeeKay"
I'll probably get an account when it goes live, but I don't have any names planned.
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2004-05-01, 6:42 AM #10
Or "gbkHrtLinux."

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2004-05-01, 6:46 AM #11
[oh my goodness, I can't read]

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2004-05-01, 6:49 AM #12
GBKNU: GBK's not Unix.

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2004-05-01, 6:58 AM #13
All my regular aliases are less than 6 [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]
2004-05-01, 8:05 AM #14
Okay, am I missing something? Who needs a 1 Gig e-mail account? To store all the spam in?

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2004-05-01, 8:07 AM #15
They want you to save all your e-amil from forever.

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2004-05-01, 8:10 AM #16
Yeah, to parse them for keywords and bombard you with personalized ads?

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2004-05-01, 8:16 AM #17
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4291&item=3675295788&rd=1
thats insane

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[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2004-05-01, 8:41 AM #18
Free shipping!

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2004-05-01, 8:52 AM #19
So wait, when it goes live will there be a cost? Or will it be free?
2004-05-01, 9:29 AM #20
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by powertickle:
So wait, when it goes live will there be a cost? Or will it be free?</font>


It will be free. The accounts that are being sold now are the test accounts that were supposed to be given to google employees and their families/friends.

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2004-05-01, 11:21 AM #21
What exactly do you guys plan to do with 1 gig of email space anyway?...

I don't think Hotmail nor Yahoo can really pack many more ads in without it getting silly, so I don't know how google will fund itself. Mind you, I don't fully get how google keeps itself going as a search engine anyway, so meh.
2004-05-01, 11:23 AM #22
Me? I'm gonna get 5 accounts and store all non-program files on my web account.
2004-05-01, 12:18 PM #23
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/eek.gif]
Does anyone else find it disturbing that a certain group of people are eagerly awaiting the release of an e-mail service?
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2004-05-01, 12:55 PM #24
Who would pay 200 $$ for some thing that will be out and FREE in a while?
2004-05-01, 12:57 PM #25
I am really[/b] going to sound stupid here, but...

Gmail?!?!?! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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2004-05-01, 1:08 PM #26
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GHORG:
What exactly do you guys plan to do with 1 gig of email space anyway?...

I don't think Hotmail nor Yahoo can really pack many more ads in without it getting silly, so I don't know how google will fund itself. Mind you, I don't fully get how google keeps itself going as a search engine anyway, so meh.</font>


Google is one of the most profitable companies in the world. It is almost as profitable as the Royal Bank of Canada, the most profitable company IN Canada...
2004-05-01, 1:09 PM #27
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gee_4ce:
I am really going to sound stupid here, but...

Gmail?!?!?! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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Google Email, they are give 1 gig of email space

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
2004-05-01, 1:46 PM #28
hmmm...
1 GB of adds for viagra.


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2004-05-01, 2:18 PM #29
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Darth Evad:
They want you to save all your e-amil from forever.

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oh. Yeah. save that one why dont you. So I can treasure it for years and years. And show it to my kids. The ones I should be having with Ali and Ali's sister!..... I hate this computer.

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2004-05-01, 3:12 PM #30
If anyone here happens to have an account, we should get a Massassi invite-tree going on.
2004-05-01, 4:59 PM #31
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SithNazgul:
oh. Yeah. save that one why dont you. So I can treasure it for years and years. And show it to my kids. The ones I should be having with Ali and Ali's sister!..... I hate this computer.

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YES!

As for Google funding itself, they make a lot of money. So much in fact, that all of their employees get free lunches every day. There was an article in our paper about it. It's much craziness how much some people are willing to pay to advertise with google. That, and schools and some companies buy liscenses to use the google engine to search their campus networks. I know our Uni does it.

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2004-05-01, 5:32 PM #32
It seems to me that a lot of people fail to realize how the ads work. For one, the ads don't go into the mail, so they only affect people using G-mail. As far as I know, they follow the same rules as Google's sponsored search ads(the small text ads off to the side when you search), so stuff like porn and such won't show up on them.
2004-05-01, 5:33 PM #33
Google is going to be even more profitable soon... Arent they launching an IPO in the near future?

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2004-05-01, 8:28 PM #34
They made just over $100,000,000 net last year.

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