On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Michael Halcrow wrote: <snip>
But then anyone and their dog who signs up immediately gets invites. Then they all start spamming their friends, family, and mailing lists, on behalf of Google! I've got to hand it to them; that was a really slick move on Google's part.
It is good marketing. I also thought about the appropriateness of sending these messages to the UUG list, but several points (not necessarily in order of importance) led me to decide it was ok:
1) Everyone else is doing it. :)
2) There is a demand (judging by how fast people are giving away their invites)
3) By doing a google search for "gmail tips" and reading some of the pages that come up, there is a lot you can do with it, including using it for backup. :)
4) Geeks love this stuff. :)
On a more serious note, perhaps we should set up a page on the UUG site that has the names of people and how many GMail invites they currently have available. Perhaps make a second "low-traffic" mailing list that tells people when new invites are available. Just a few thoughts.
Grant
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