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 5)

fjord

on Nov 18, 2005

Well, Google's farce has finally collapsed on them. They only want to make money! How dare they? And with advertising to boot? What kind of moral decay would allow a business to use advertising to make money. If something does not exist within a three mile radius of me, I don't want to know about it, because I don't need it and I certainly don't want to buy it.

Really, I'm just happy I have an anti-virus scanner, anti-spyware scanner, and search engine that magically know just what they need to do. If any one of those things actually accessed my sensitive, sensitive data like how big my cat Nibblers has gotten, I'd be ruined!

I, for one, say down with the ad-based businesses!

starkers

on Nov 18, 2005

Anyone with half a brain can see that as intrusive...but most are blinded by the gigs of storage...and cliquish 'invites' that make this crap advertising venture look groovy.

Exactly...and Google counts on the naive, ill-informed and dimwits to do their dirty work...they're without scruples

A niece of mine recently got herself a Gmail account and was plagued by porn spam, free music spam, cheap precscription drugs spams.....all because her husband clicked on an music related ad, placed in an email from an army buddy regarding their band.
Needless to say, common sense prevailed and their Gmail account has been deleted from their PC.

YBWZRD

on Nov 18, 2005

Then you're just stubborn. GMAIL is safe, if it wasn't there would be articles on magazines and websites about the insecurity of GMAIL. It IS safe, the is a correct method to delete email forever (as been posted before) and if you can see there's also a deleted mail folder where you can erase EVERY mail forever too. Don't say you know how to use GMAIL n00b if you actully don't know everything.

kona0197

on Nov 18, 2005

Gmail might be safe if your talking about viruses. But the ads need to stop. Read what Jafo said. The ads are very intrusive.

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 18, 2005

My ISP identifies gmail as spam and deletes it before it reaches me. Quite right too...

starkers

on Nov 18, 2005

Then you're just stubborn.

Stubborn only in the fact that there's no convincing me Gmail is a good thing to have...it is not. I am exercising my right to be cautious of a practice I cannot trust, and you've confused that with mule headedness?

Don't say you know how to use GMAIL n00b if you actully don't know everything.

Never said I knew how to use it...there's more than enough bad experiences published all over the net and elsewhere for me to know that I don't want to know. Having said that, to each his own, and if you're happy to use it, then that's your perogative, and mine not to.

I value my privacy too much to be bombarded by invasive ads that try to manipulate my shopping habits...they're not up for grabs.

Gmail might be safe if your talking about viruses.

That may be the case regarding the actual email itself, but as my neice's husband discovered, much to their horror, inadvertantly clicking on an ad can open you up to an array of unwelcomed nasties....browser hijackers; malware; spyware; adware; trojans and viruses, etc. These are consequences that the 'bright spark' organisers don't see, and as such, obviously don't care about.

Furthermore, this invitation scheme is not dissimilar to pyramid selling. Ok, so maybe no money actually changes hands upon sign ups, but ultimately, the whole idea is about the perpetual generation of advertising revenues, and the possible consequenses to the end user can be expensively horrendous. Legal loopholes may enable this practice, but that don't make it right.

scorpio-logic

on Nov 18, 2005

I'm tired of Gmail already. If it's free there's a string attached. And why start a text war over email? There's lots of email providers. People should try not to FORCE their opinions on others, even if it is a great product/service. Have a nice day.

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