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jiminfl wrote:



How does one set up a GMAIL account?
Thanks,
Jim



Someone could invite you. I could, for example.


How about just going to the Google site, since it's their product?
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Mr. Spare Bedroom - did you follow your own link?
Did you see the page where you sign up for gmail?

Thought not.


Did you look on the right, under the heading "Communicate, show & share"?
Doesn't even require that you page down.

Thought not.

Yes, I saw that. It's very pretty, I like Google's icons.

Read the next bit slowly, maybe that will aid comprehension -
did you find the page where you sign up for a gmail
account?

Yeah, thought not.

Gmail
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Two years later, Gmail is still in "beta", meaning that access to the
service is restricted to those who had received an invitation from an
existing account holder, from Blogger, or through their mobile phone."

Don't worry about Jim. He has accepted my invitation and now has a gmail
account. So you can stop giving advice about **** that you don't know ****
about.


Lo siento. You're right. Highly non-intuitive way of signing up for email,
though.



Apology accepted (I had to bablefish the spanish)

If you are not in the US you can't even get one with your cell phone.
But OTOH you will probably never get a spam from anyone @ gmail.com. I
got my account in a similar way to Jim (that is, asking around in a
totally non-related forum)

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jiminfl wrote:



How does one set up a GMAIL account?
Thanks,
Jim



Someone could invite you. I could, for example.


How about just going to the Google site, since it's their product?
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Mr. Spare Bedroom - did you follow your own link?
Did you see the page where you sign up for gmail?

Thought not.


Did you look on the right, under the heading "Communicate, show &
share"? Doesn't even require that you page down.

Thought not.

Yes, I saw that. It's very pretty, I like Google's icons.

Read the next bit slowly, maybe that will aid comprehension -
did you find the page where you sign up for a gmail
account?

Yeah, thought not.

Gmail
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Two years later, Gmail is still in "beta", meaning that access to the
service is restricted to those who had received an invitation from an
existing account holder, from Blogger, or through their mobile phone."

Don't worry about Jim. He has accepted my invitation and now has a gmail
account. So you can stop giving advice about **** that you don't know
**** about.


Lo siento. You're right. Highly non-intuitive way of signing up for
email, though.

Apology accepted (I had to bablefish the spanish)

If you are not in the US you can't even get one with your cell phone. But
OTOH you will probably never get a spam from anyone @ gmail.com. I got my
account in a similar way to Jim (that is, asking around in a totally
non-related forum)

I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:26:28 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

Lots of good reasons starting with fast, efficient and vast amounts of
free storage. Add in universal availability from whatever computer
you happen to be on, and you've got a winner.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:26:28 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

Lots of good reasons starting with fast, efficient and vast amounts of
free storage. Add in universal availability from whatever computer
you happen to be on, and you've got a winner.


The "universal availability" is true of most ISP e-mail plans, but the rest
isn't comparable, I guess.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:26:28 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:


I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

Lots of good reasons starting with fast, efficient and vast amounts of
free storage. Add in universal availability from whatever computer
you happen to be on, and you've got a winner.



The "universal availability" is true of most ISP e-mail plans, but the rest
isn't comparable, I guess.


Also, if you actually use the email address assigned by your isp then it
is subject to change. Not so bad these days, but in the early years my
email address was changing 3 times a year as companies went out of
business or got bought and sold.

My gmail and yahoo address, OTOH, are not subject to whims of the isp
business and the email sent to/from those is available everywhere.
Gmail has a surprisingly good spam filter too. I get about about one
spam a week there, as opposed to hundreds a day at my triple-filtered
work address.

"Black Dog" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:26:28 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:


I'm mystified as to why people use it, frankly, especially people who
have
web access at home. If you've got an ISP, you have e-mail.

Lots of good reasons starting with fast, efficient and vast amounts of
free storage. Add in universal availability from whatever computer
you happen to be on, and you've got a winner.



The "universal availability" is true of most ISP e-mail plans, but the
rest isn't comparable, I guess.
Also, if you actually use the email address assigned by your isp then it
is subject to change. Not so bad these days, but in the early years my
email address was changing 3 times a year as companies went out of
business or got bought and sold.

My gmail and yahoo address, OTOH, are not subject to whims of the isp
business and the email sent to/from those is available everywhere. Gmail
has a surprisingly good spam filter too. I get about about one spam a week
there, as opposed to hundreds a day at my triple-filtered work address.

I still have the same email address I had 15-20 years ago. 4 different
companies have owned me, but they all kept the email addresses the same.