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> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:35:28PM -0000, Darksyde wrote:
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> > You will receive an invite soon. It seems that every time I log in I have more invitations available, last count being 20, so I'll send you one. According to Google it may take a few days to arrive but it's on its way. Let me know when you get it. BTW, you may find that the intro video by "Dr. Wave" runs slowly. It helps to clean your browsing history and cookies often, or you can see the vid with less trouble on Youtube.
> > Mark (darksyde61@
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> Remember when gmail was an invite only? I remember a very funny
> Userfriendly sequence, where one of them has almost gotten rid of all
> his invites, and then Google gives him another hundred.
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>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Buffy: Now, we can do this the hard way or... well, actually,
> there's just the hard way.
> Darla: That's fine with me.
> Buffy: Are you sure? Now this is not gonna be pretty. We're
> talking violence, strong language, adult content.
>
I'm pretty new to gmail but it sounds as if it had a rocky beginning too. Apparently the folks at Google wisely plan these beta releases so that bugs are reported and fixed just as the project is reaching critical mass so as to allow maximum input and wide distribution without crashing servers.
Mark
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