Gmail Invites

[melp57]

I was was wodering why gmail invites still are around, when anyone can
now sign up?

[Zack (Doc)]

Because not anyone can sign up. Admittedly here in the US it's become
pretty easy with the use of SMS, but the rest of the world isn't
allowed to use that yet.

Couple that with the frequent requests for invites that pop up in
groups like this, and have to be moderated out because the people fail
to read the "About" page and go to an appropriate page to get an
invite. This tells me that these people are having a hard time
signing up, despite the multitude of invites and additional methods
provided.

Further, I think it's a good idea to keep them because it makes it
more difficult for spammers to create a gmail account (not impossible
obviously, but more difficult), and gives Google an easy way to track
them back to the source, and further complicate it for them. (IE, if
your invite is used to create a spammer's account, your invite
capability is limited, and if your address was used to receive an
invite that was turned into a spammers account, you're no longer able
to receive invites).

Also... this forum is proof that Google's idea of e-mail, does not
agree with what "everyone" wants. Some people are heavily invested,
and personally interested in keeping their e-mail in a form they've
used before. For this reason, if they did create an account, they
might abandon it and never use it. This creates waste that google
currently has less of a problem with. Everyone I've invited has
conscientiously decided to try this "new way of doing e-mail" so
they're less likely to cut and run at the first sign of trouble.

Just my thoughts...

[kane]

Thank god, a Chinese friend gave me an invite and I could appreciate
the wonder world G-Mail has provided us~~

[Mel Parrish]

Good thought! I just asumed that since there was a link from the "more" on the google page, that anyone could now sign up. I looked again, and there is really no way to do it. I also like the invite way, and think they should keep it.

Doesn't it kind of make you feel special to be invited to something as great as Gmail :)

 

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[Stephen W. Browning]

I got invited to gmail by singing of for google alerts.  Eventually Google sent me an invitation.