OT: Would you folks consider my offering free Gmail invitations to be spam?

I am a semiregular poster here and have a number of Google Mail (gmail.google.com) invitations and want to share them with those people who have shared their information with me online and blessed my life but with whom I don't often have much of value to share. If I offered them first-come, first-served to people on this group in recognition of and gratitude for the fact that without you folks I would still look like a cross between Jan Larkey's "Before" picture in _Flatter Your Figure_ and classic trailer trash instead of a reasonably-well-put-together person whose clothes fit wonderfully and who looks pretty good even though she weighs probably twice as much as she would really like to weigh, would you folks call it spam and thrash me soundly, even though I don't get a cent for offering them to people and they don't have to pay for it, just sign up the same as you would for a Yahoo address?

Melinda, who has been busy with stuff other than sewing as of late but who has cycled on and off the list for about 8-10 years

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Melinda Meahan - remove TRASH to reply
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what is a Gmail invitation, invitation to what?

penny s

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pas

Google is startng to offer email and is rolling out usage incrementally at this point. The gmail.google.com URL will tell you everything you can find out about it.

People are auctioning off Gmail invitations on Ebay and trying to sell/barter/etc them other places, and I have to wonder if that's against Google's TOS to do that, but I won't do it anyway.

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Melinda Meahan - remove TRASH to reply

I have it and it is fun. It's a different way to think about email. I use my free email address for all those things that require an email but you don't want to give them your real one... Don't use gmail for that. You keep all your mail around and "Google" it to find a message. I don't need to keep spam around. There are some other differences that have led me to decide that gmail will be my account for friends and family, the address that won't change as I move around, change jobs/ISPs, etc.

They use algorithms to scan your mail and put advertising along the right side to pay for the service. I confirmed with a friend at Google that I could use encryption (PGP) to get around this, but so far I haven't needed/wanted to. It's no more of a nuisance than the ads you see when you perform a Google search. I don't even notice them.

-Charlotte

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Charlotte

So it's like "real" email + grep? The more things change, the more they stay the same!

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Ann Knight

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