So, it seems that Gmail has just blessed many users, including myself, with a new and relatively abundant allocation of invites (10 in my case over the course of last week) to give to users of their service, which I've taken good advantage of.
It does seem that the supply of Gmail accounts has significantly increased in the past few weeks, to the point where auctions on eBay are actually having trouble attracting bidders -- $2-$3 dollars is considered lucky. This is in contrast to a few months ago, where invites were going for $50 to $100 each!
But that's not the most interesting Gmail twist I noticed recently. It seems that my Gmail invites I had sent out today were not being received by a large number of recipients -- upon further investigation, they all had Yahoo or Hotmail addresses. I asked them to check ther bulk/junk mail folder, and lo and behold, the Gmail invites were there!
A delibrate conspiracy by desparate incumbents? Or simply brain-dead overzealous spam filters that coincidentally targetted the invites? You decide... ;)
Comments (2)
Gmail sounds cool! Maybe I should get an account...
Posted by Maiku | June 23, 2004 3:58 AM
Posted on June 23, 2004 03:58
I've got EXACTLY one more invite to give out. You've got first dibs on it, Mike. Just say yes or no...
Posted by ryu2 | June 24, 2004 6:05 PM
Posted on June 24, 2004 18:05