April 29, 2004

Curious George: Gmail My friend (who got his gmail account via blogger) is using one of his two invites to give me a Gmail account, ever since I heard he got one I've been really jealous, question is: with this lovely fresh start what address should I choose? Since there are very few beta testers many millions of very cool ones are still available! Choices! What is Gmail?

Tentitive ideas: [email protected] [email protected] -others too lame to mention Also, it needs to be between 6 and 30 digits long, and the only character allowed beyond numbers and letters is a period.

posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • Apologies, I seem to have messed up the first link... my first fp post. It was just meant to be to http://www.gmail.com.
  • "hotmail is not available" :(
  • I should probably hurry up and register an account incase the invite thingy times out. Spammer is also taken... tracicle: if I get the chance to invite people, you're top of the list ;)
  • A few caveats: - It (currenlty) doesn't support any MacOS9-based browser. Neither Safari on OSX. Meh. Ended up using... Netscape. - Last two emails I got, there seemed to be some bug that didn't allow download of attachments. Anyway, already got my favorite. Whee!
  • [email protected] [email protected] (since you knew what boo's suggestion would be before he gave it, sort of.) It'd be easier if we knew you better. Just don't pick something that sounds cool now but'll make you squirm later. You also might want to consider what recipients would do with an email from [email protected], for example, if that appealed to you.
  • [email protected] ? l3g@l\/[email protected] MyPrivacyWasInvadedAndAllIGotWasThisLousyEmailAccount? (I kid) maybe the user id for your yahoo acct?
  • Thats it, I made the account,, for better or worse I now have: [email protected]. Minus the spam protection obviously. Could of been worse?
  • "lurve"?
  • Not to derail, but does anyone know why the comments are totally out of order in here? It seems to be worse than the few other places I've noticed it... It's friekin' me out, man!
  • I always thought the comment in metafilter about someone getting [email protected] would be funny....in an 8th grader sort of way. huh huh... /beavis voice
  • Pssst... whynotjustmakeabloggeraccounttouseGMail?
  • Because the invitation is only to active blogger users, just like the invite a friend link in gmail doesn't appear until you've reached some activity threshold. All the good names are already taken I'm afraid, long ago. Sigh. I had designs upon [email protected], or possibly octopus@
  • Dude. Your user name here is already the best thing ever.
  • mixed get whenever the up think comments i the order posts tracicle.
  • "mixed get whenever the up think comments i the order posts tracicle." Naw they were mixed up before tracicle posted... could it be to do with timezones? I'm running on GMT and I reckon most of the other people that posted in this thread arn't.
  • Godfrost you, black ambassador.
  • A Frosty Mt. Ambassador?
  • I also had that problem recently. Thinking up a username. First I used my real name (my nick is too short for Gmail :-( ) but then I got another invite (I know people that know people) and used a nonsical name. Don't know wich one I'm going to use. Gmail does work with Safari though. There are some glitches (editing the address-book opens erroneous windows and you can't check if your username is taken. Also the shortcuts don't work, but i don't mind about that.) but in the whole it works and is the slickest web-interface for email I've seen. The only thing that bothers me is the M$ style of quoting. The cursor is at the top of the quoted message, and since the window is rather small nobody will delete any message portions. But I'm kind of old school in that. I'm probably going to use my Gmail account for fast backups when I don't want to fire up my FTP client and just wants the stuff I did to be backed up. holester at gmail dot com if you want to sent me large attachments
  • There was certainly something very cool about getting [email protected] - I mean, if you think about how long it's been since you can get anything even resembling a real name at hotmail... I dunno. Quite a minor thing to get pleasure from, but the fact that for once in my life I was first to something - and that I beat that bloody artist, the sodding Texan judge and that twat country and western singer - it just gave me a little techy thrill for, ooh, two days at least?
  • I hate all you gmail account holding bastards. (why is it you only want the things you can't bloody have?)
  • dng: Check your email.
  • dng kisses the_bone. (dear god, that sounds rude)
  • I small question - what is the point of having a minimum length on usernames? I've never really understood that one, especially for email addresses.
  • I have three invites. e-mail me at kimberly [at] squoogy [dot] com. Put "invite for a monkey" or some such in the subject :)~
  • I also have three, check my profile and drop me a line if you want one.
  • Thanks, Kim. The site tells me I am [email protected], but I have been able to access my account due to a server error.
  • unable, geesh I need to preview my preview...
  • I still have two; they're getting harder to get rid of.
  • Okey doke, I have a few more Gmail invites. If anyone still wants 'em, I'll give up to five of them away. Just email me at blaisebaileyfinnegan (at) gmail.com and I'll sort you out.