Ques re:Gmail

cubix

Just tried to sign up for Gmail but it tells you that to do this you either need to be invited by another Gmail user or via your mobile. Any idea why its this way, and the mobile route seems to be a non starter as they dont list the Irish networks.

Cheers Cubix

Ruu_Old

Send me a pm with your email and I'll invite you.

cubix

Thanks for that Ruu, any idea why its set up that way?

Cubix

Stephen

Its a good mechanism to prevent spammers and other undesirables using scripts/bots etc to automatically sign up new accounts over and over.

cubix

True, thanks again Ruu;)

Ruu_Old

Invite sent, 97 left.

netwhizkid

Cubix did you get a GMail or Googlemail account? I got my invite from an @gmail person and I ended up with @googlemail.com subsequent people I have invited also have got @googlemail.com rather than @gmail.com.

Sending an email to joebloggs@gmail.com is the same as sending it to joebloggs@googlemail.com and vice versa. However having your email arrive to your recipient with @gmail.com is much more stylish IMO. As a result of this I still use my @yahoo.co.uk mail more than my gmail now. Also for anyone registering a yahoo email you will automatically get an @co.uk account as I did :mad:

Change the URL in the signup page from http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=uk&new=1&.done=&.src=ym&partner=&.p=&promo=&.last=

to intl=ie for Ireland, and subseguently a joebloggs@yahoo.ie email account.

HelterSkelter

netwhizkid wrote:

Cubix did you get a GMail or Googlemail account? I got my invite from an @gmail person and I ended up with @googlemail.com subsequent people I have invited also have got @googlemail.com rather than @gmail.com.

This happens if you have a UK IP address. Google are in dispute with some company in the UK over use of the Gmail name.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html

masteroftherealm

Us original gmail users get to keep our gmail addresses tho.
Our new users get googlemail tho afaik.

Hmm_Messiah

netwhizkid wrote:

However having your email arrive to your recipient with @gmail.com is much more stylish IMO. As a result of this I still use my @yahoo.co.uk mail more than my gmail now.

In Settings can you not just add _____@gmail.com as the address to show ? I know it looks for verificationt thats your email address but you said the verificatio email will go to googlemail addy ?

you can then set it as default to

Aura

Yeah been trying to sign up for Gmail too but to no avail...
Hotmail's been acting up on me loads lately!
Any other invites??

A

Ruu_Old

Yeah heaps of them, PM your email address.

masteroftherealm

Or myself. Just PM me an email. Unlimited amount here.

Aura

Magic! thanks a million Ruu, really appreciate it.
Cheers for offer too masteroftherealm.

A

Ruu_Old

No problem, gmail ftw.

masteroftherealm

Most definitly!! The world deserves gmail!!

Spunog UIE

yeah invites are pretty easy to come by now. most users with an account prob have 90-100 invites

masteroftherealm

People who were invited by gmail users have 100. People who were invited by google employees have unlimited.

Stephen

Netwhizkid: UTV/NTL by any chance? It doesn't matter if you get a googlemail address anyway, mail sent to your username @ gmail.com will still be delivered to you.

edit: oh hold on, I vaguely remember you saying that you had some kind of satellite connection due to the lack of dsl in your area. The sat isp probably peers with teh interweb in the UK.

netwhizkid

Stephen wrote:

Netwhizkid: UTV/NTL by any chance? It doesn't matter if you get a googlemail address anyway, mail sent to your username @ gmail.com will still be delivered to you.

edit: oh hold on, I vaguely remember you saying that you had some kind of satellite connection due to the lack of dsl in your area. The sat isp probably peers with teh interweb in the UK.

Yeah, I have a weird IP alright, BT Anytime dial-up for the uplink with an Irish Esat Ip and a Skydsl German IP for download. Some websites recognise me as being on an Irish IP but the majority thinks I'm in Berlin as it is where the connection connects to the rest of the world. all my pop-ups are in German etc. Maybe that explains my @googlemail.com phenomenon