Gmail Invite

UPDATE 02/19/2005 - YES, I have plenty of Gmail invites. Just post a message below with your email address and I'll send you one no questions asked

I opened my hotmail tonight and stumbled upon a little surprise. A Gmail invite from Paul Grave. Author of the Translate extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser. I had posted a couple of comments on his site the other day about the band A Perfect Circle and about the fact that I was interested in a Gmail invite as he mentioned he had a few. Well it turned out that he gave away the few that he had prior to my post. No biggie. I have enough email accounts anyway. I was just curious about Gmail because of all the hype surrounding it. Well that coupled with the fact that you can't just go sign up for it while it's in Beta. You have to get an invite from somewhere.

So, Paul was generous enough to share an invite with me after receiving yet more Gmail invites. I'm very grateful for his kindness in keeping me in mind. I signed up and to my astonishment my usual nickname was already taken. I have the name "Linuxevangelist" at every major site you can think of... Hotmail, Yahoo!, Netscape, AOL, Slashdot, etc. I even had the domain name, linuxevangelist.com for a few years. But for the first time I tried to sign up for something and that name was already taken. So I grabbed my backup name... Erufailo. Fair enough. Cheers to linuxevangelist@gmail.com whoever you are.

Of course the Gmail system is down tonight for whatever reason so I can't tell you if I like it or not. I'm not sure I can spill actual details about the service given the lengthy agreement I accepted when signing up - but I'm fairly certain I can offer an opinion on whether or not I like the service or not. I'll have to check the agreement to be sure of course, maybe they own my opinions as well :p

If I should come into any Gmail invites myself now that I've signed up I'll be sure to share with my friends who are interested. Send me a mail if you'd like one and I'll keep you in mind.

-Travis