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Personally, I am tired of all the people selling the Gmail invitation, I don't have a Gmail account yet, so I may be missing out but I really don't understand what the big craze is about. It's just an email account and as most of us here are webmasters, with own hosting, we can get just as much space for our email accounts. I would never use that much space, it's really a lot.

I think Google is right by making those amendments to their terms of use but I highly doubt this will stop people from selling the accounts, the sales are conducted in private, via PM on forums or AIM and other messenger programs. I really don't see how Google can monitor those sales.

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Originally posted by bryan
Isn't it going to be free eventually?

Yes, Gmail will be free and open to anyone once it is out of beta.

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Even the BBC :O (unless they arent talking about invites either, just like the gmail policies aparently), I checked into that policy update with google and they said that the selling of invites isnt included in the policy and that it is allowed

Quote:

From : Gmail Team <gmail-support@google.com>
Sent : Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:07 PM
To : changed for antispam@hotmail.com
Subject : Re: [#11826789] A gmail invitation question

Hello,

Thank you for your message.

While we're testing Gmail, we are also making improvements to our policies
and procedures. We recently made changes to the Gmail Program Policies in
order to better protect Gmail users, and to put our policies more in line
with those of other webmail providers. To read the updated version of the
Gmail Program Policies, please visit:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/program_policies.html.

Please note that you may sell unused Gmail invitations.

We hope you enjoy Google's approach to email.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

Last edited by acerdude, July 29th, 2004 07:45 AM (Edited 1 times)

So you cant snatch up 'hot' usernames, and then sell those. I see..

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maybe they should have banned it sooner when people were making 70 dollars+ on it.

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Originally posted by freak
Yes, Gmail will be free and open to anyone once it is out of beta.

When will that be?

Onlly google knows

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