G-Mail - if you don't get one yet

Want a G-MAIL account? Get it now.

Published on April 8, 2005 By Mithun Pal In Internet

For a G-Mail account send an email at hcp006slATgmailDOTcom.

Otherwise, you can leave your massage here requesting for an account.

Comments (Page 3)

Mithun Pal

on Nov 08, 2005

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Nope. Google saves everything even after you delete it.

Probably mistaken. Only a mad can do so. At least if I could be the owner of G-Mail, I would just tell you that sorry I don't have money to store your deleted massage. Because I can store those things for which I'm getting money. As G-Mail is ad-supported free mail, I must store all your valid mails and show you as you login. But, what would I earn storing the deleted one? This is just common sense.

Some news stories have suggested that Google intends to keep copies of users' email messages even after they've deleted them, or closed their accounts. This is simply not true. Google keeps multiple backup copies of users' emails so that they can recover messages and restore accounts in case of errors or system failure. (Can you remember what happened when WC melt down?) Even if a message has been deleted or an account is no longer active, messages may remain on their backup systems for some period of time. This is standard practice in the email industry, which Gmail and other major webmail services follow in order to provide a reliable service for users. They will make reasonable efforts to remove deleted information from our systems as quickly as is practical.

Mithun Pal

on Nov 08, 2005

Reply to #30.
Is it called invitation or spaming?

Mithun Pal

on Nov 08, 2005

New feature of G-Mail - Export contacts:

You can quickly export your Gmail Contacts list into a CSV file. Here's how:

Log in to your Gmail account.
Click 'Contacts' along the left side of any Gmail page.
Click 'Export' in the upper-right corner of your Contacts list.
Select the format in which you'd like to export your contacts' information.
- Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into another Gmail account.
  - This option encodes your CSV file in Unicode/UTF-8.
- Outlook CSV (for import into Outlook clients, including Outlook Express): formats your contacts' information so you can easily import it into various versions of Microsoft Outlook.
  - This option encodes your CSV file based on your language preferences, since Outlook doesn't accept Unicode files. When you import your contacts into Outlook, some entries may become garbled if they contain characters that aren't part of your language's character set.
Click 'Export Contacts.'
Select a location to save your file, and click 'OK.'

Depending on the requirements of the program to which you're importing your contacts, you can easily edit the Gmail CSV to fit your needs.

Peppery9

on Nov 09, 2005

Legit invites

Mithun Pal

on Nov 09, 2005

Legit invites

But, why so many?

Dan Kaschel

on Nov 09, 2005

Gmail is sweet. It has a great, fast interface, a lot of neat features, and a ton of storage space (I keep much of my music collection online so that I can download it from anywhere). The privacy thing is ridiculous. It automatically scans your e-mail to post content sensitive ads. Big deal. Microsoft Word scans your document to display it in readable format.

And yet, they back up their computers, so delete e-mail isn't fully deleted for up to a month. I can live with that. And I'm dang happy they back things up. Anti-gmail people bother me. If you don't want to use the best free service out there, fine. Don't use it.

Dan

Gregory2001

on Nov 09, 2005

The ignorance/stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

Bichur

on Nov 09, 2005

The ignorance/stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

Then...one the other hand...I'm amazing!

Mithun Pal

on Nov 10, 2005

so delete e-mail isn't fully deleted for up to a month

But, why so many?

Ashwin Narasimhan

on Nov 10, 2005

Everyone needs Gmail. It has more than 2 gigs of storage, and multiple ways of organizing your messages (stars, labels, dates, and unread). It has a free notifier, and an intelligent spam filter. It says there are ads, but unless you are looking for them, they are unnoticable.

Sembetu

on Nov 10, 2005

I own my own e-mail address (not used here), so I can administer it as I see fit. And as far as storage, I have a 30g 5th gen iPod, that's plenty for anything I need to carry with me or access. However, I do have a gmail address, just because I signed up for it a long time ago when the were accepting special requests and you had to wait to be included in the "circle of gMail". Whatever.

In any case, I use my gmail to recieve messages that are high volume such as from professional user groups, association news, and internet association updates... things like that. That way, I can check it whenever I get around to it, and I don't have to worry about it getting shut down because I didn't clean it up. Plus it is anonymous. For professional communication and business transactions, I use my self administered e-mail system. So, I guess you just have to put it in perspective as to what you need for what. Personally, I have my happy medium. Find yours.

Sembetu

starkers

on Nov 10, 2005

Everyone needs Gmail.

I DON'T...DON'T trust it.....DON'T want it. I dislike advertisers tactics and advertising intensely, and would never willingly get in bed with a company that employs spam and advertising to further it goals.....much less a company that makes its business to know your business.

Mithun Pal

on Nov 10, 2005

I dislike advertisers tactics and advertising intensely, and would never willingly get in bed with a company that employs spam and advertising to further it goals.....much less a company that makes its business to know your business.

POP means no ad. So, POP is for you. So, G-Mail is for you.

Gmail users only see relevant text ads, similar to those on Google search results pages . The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers.

Ads are matched using the technology that powers the Google AdSense program, which already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them.

No loading of external images by default. Many marketing or spam messages include hidden "web bugs" embedded in external images. Typically, when these images are loaded, the web bugs signal that the email address is active, thereby helping companies further perfect their recipient list for marketing or spam messages. Not loading external images helps to prevent this.

kona0197

on Nov 10, 2005

Everyone needs Gmail. It has more than 2 gigs of storage, and multiple ways of organizing your messages

So does my ISP email. And it's much more private. Ad it has no ads.

starkers

on Nov 11, 2005

POP means no ad. So, POP is for you. So, G-Mail is for you.

No....I have a POP email account through my ISP and am more than satisfied with it, never ever do I see ads, never ever do I get spam or junk mail.
Furthermore, I am guaranteed that once my emails have been downloaded and or deleted, they do not remain on their severs/data banks....an enquiry into an accidentally deleted emailed resulted in: "We no longer have it and cannot provide you a copy." Yes, it means I have to be more careful and make backups, but I'd rather that than have my personal business stored on someone elses machine for months after deletion.

As for the ad insertion being automated (nobody actually reads my mail), I still don't care for the practice of ad placement in correspondence that was never intended to display it.....meaning that senders can and do become unwilling participants in the promotion of something they would otherwise not support. Besides all that, automated systems, no matter how good they are, require some monitoring and human intervention, which to me casts suspicion on the claim that no human eyes ever see your emails. Yes, I am that distrusting, particularly when a company uses stealth and under the radar tactics to penetrate, dominate and control as many nooks and crannies on the internet as it can. Recently, a friend who has Gmail told me that he's sick of seeing ads at the tops and bottoms of his emails...sometimes even between paragraphs, and there's no way on earth I'm ever signing myself up for that.

To me, ads like this are intrusive and an abomination, as are the parasites who proliferate them. If someone intercepts your land mail, it is a criminal offence, punishable by law, as should the interception of emails to place unwelcomed ads be.....unwelcomed being the key word! With countless studies and surveys showing that the majority of people are sick and tired of ads, and therefore shy away to avoid them at all costs, you'd think the ad parasites would get the message...but no, they just find new and more inescapable ways to intrude into as many aspects of our lives as they possibly can.

Yep, I've got one hell of a bee in my bonnet! Advertising is just about everywhere you look: newspapers; magazines; public transport; beside most highways and roads; airports; hotels; most radio and TV stations (even the pay TV I purchased to escape the commercialism).....and I should be able to find sanctuary from it in my personal dealings and correspondence, etc. Furthermore, given the billions and billions of dollars sunk into it, the bulk of advertising is obscene and an insult to ones intelligence! Apart from being inately childish in content, it's too often trying to tell us what we want and need....that some inferior product is a must have item. GRRRRR.

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