Thanks for the Gmail invite

18 Jun 2004

Well, a reader was kind enough to offer me a Gmail invite gratuitously:

Want a gmail invite? I think I’ve got one left and I’d much rather give it to someone who cares about web standards (yay) than compromise what I think is my moral integrity by whoring out something I got for free in the first place.

You can’t deny there is some truth in the bit about “whoring out” Gmail invites that seem to have been happening of late heh (heard of Gmail Swap?). Well, not everyone is whoring out their invites – some of them go to a good cause (like donations to charity or non-profit organizations).

Anyway, I’d like to thank Luke for his kind gesture. Luke wrote about his Gmail invites as such:

I’ve got 2 invites left and although free stuff (or auctioning it off for cash through ebay) is tempting, it doesn’t sit right with me morally, ethically, or somethin’.

Nice.

Luke keeps a blog at http://blog.lukema.net/ and also an anime blog with mini-reviews of anime like Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist. Visit his website sometime.

54 Responses to Thanks for the Gmail invite

Meera

August 11th, 2004 at 3am

a gmail account would be great! mnis@rogers.com thank you!

you’d obviously have my eternal love and respect.

John

August 8th, 2004 at 8pm

What’s this fuss about GMail? Spymac.com offers a 1GB email address + 100MB webspace with FTP support without any banners, file-size limits, popups or other useless stuff, a blog and a forum for free.

Lulu

August 7th, 2004 at 5pm

Hey!

I’ve been trying to win/get a Gmail Invite for who know’s how long… =’(
if anyone has a spare one please please send one to me and I’d be forever grateful =)

— > dark_angel3339@hotmail.com

Thanks!

rashid

July 27th, 2004 at 8pm

Lots of people have got gmail and i’m stuck with ‘hotmail.’ Can anyone send me an invite? (@ilikeusingthetoilets@hotmail.com)

mustafa

July 14th, 2004 at 6pm

hello.i need a gmail.please invite me..
name : mustafa
mail : mustafagulen@hotmail.com
Thanks..

Lots of people have got gmail and i’m stuck with ‘hotmail.’ Can anyone send me an invite?

jenn

July 14th, 2004 at 7am

here’s a new site that’s giving out gmail invites:

http://www.geevite.com

i’ve won 1 so far.

Kati

July 13th, 2004 at 8am

I have ONE gmail invite left. To get this invite you must join Xanga(free), visit my site, comment and leave your email addy. So, go to http://www.xanga.com and join then come over and comment on my site http://www.xanga.com/katithecutie. Don’t forget to leave your email addy.

Yevgeniy K

July 12th, 2004 at 5pm

I would appreciate an invite to GMail. I am a teacher at the local High School. My 2MB mailbox at hotmail is too small for attachments when kids send graphic design work to my mailbox. If someone can send an invite, please use yevk@hotmail.com.

Thanks.

Dan

July 12th, 2004 at 1am

Hi All

Im living in Ireland…but have a yahoo.co.uk address so a great big gmail account is requried
any chance of one floating around to be stappled to
olearydc@yahoo.co.uk

cheers..Dan

Im living in Ireland…but have a yaho.co.uk address so a great big gmail account is requried
any chance of one floating around to be stappled to
olearydc@yaho.co.uk

arunabraham

July 11th, 2004 at 6pm

HI….

would anybody be kind enough and give this fella a google invite. Do mail it to this id

mailzaxter@yahoo.com

Thanks

lookyn

July 10th, 2004 at 10pm

Hi, please send me GMAIL INVITE. Please!!!
lookyn@centrum.cz

MattCatt

July 11th, 2004 at 4pm

What is the attachment size limit? i want to know because i can’t send important stuff in one piece.
Also i need an account where i can save old emails because i cant save them on my small amount of hard drive space
i normally dont ‘beg’ but if anyone has an invite i can have that would be great

D Palmer

July 10th, 2004 at 1am

I’m interested in using Gmail for personal use.
Could someone please send me an invite at -> DPalmer07@yahoo.com.

Much appreciated!

Rudy

July 10th, 2004 at 11am

Hi,

Can anyone send me a gmail invite?

If Yes, Send it to rsantolie@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance.

Sireesha

July 10th, 2004 at 12am

Can anyone please, sene me a Gmail invite.

ia lai

July 9th, 2004 at 3pm

me too!!!! can somebody please send me a gmail invite??
my email is ia3500@yahoo.com.au

TOmCOld

July 6th, 2004 at 1am

Please Can U invite to gmail Account

xpfreak

July 7th, 2004 at 1am

hi,
hi can sombody plz sen me invite for g-mail
my e-mail = brainpower2500@hotmail.com

later

Debbie

July 7th, 2004 at 10am

hi… I would really appreciate an invite it if anyone had anymore available. Thanks so much! my email is dzzhuang@mit.edu

darryl

July 5th, 2004 at 4am

i realize its a long shot at this point, but if any kind user out there has an invite that they don’t have tagged for anyone yet, could i possibly have it? it would be greatly appreciated. my email address is dduffy17@hotmail.com

darryl duffy

i know its probably a long shot by now, but if there is any chance anyone has an invite they aren’t using, i’d appreicate it. thanks =)

my email is dduffy17@hotmail.com

Alex

July 3rd, 2004 at 1am

hi,

Anyone with a gmail invite for a very needy case? please assist.

tamwcanada@yahoo.ca

alex

Krissy

July 3rd, 2004 at 12pm

I was directed over here for a Gmail invite, something I have been desperate for, for a long time now. I know you don’t know me, but would you still happen to have any left you’d be willing to give? If you do, my email is opaqueflower@hotmail.com

dannielle

July 4th, 2004 at 11am

i am willing to donate 20.00 to the first homeless person i see after recieving a gmail invite, OR i will donate the 20.00 to a local homeless shelter, your choice.
PLEASE invite me!
love
dannie (isotope1979@aol.com)

Getulio Campos

I can clone gmail invites, I just need someone to invite me and I will give 6 invites back.

Anyone can Invite me ?

Getulio Junior
getuliojr@ig.com.br

Naani

July 1st, 2004 at 3am

Please send me an invite for gmail to naaniusa@yahoo.com

Jenny

July 1st, 2004 at 3pm

Hi, if anyone has any spare gmail invites do you think you could wing one my way?

Thanks in advance :)

jenni.hamster@virgin.net

Spaceman

June 30th, 2004 at 8pm

Poor student with wife and 1 year old kid. Trying to get by with a 20Mb email school account.

I need a larger one, so I can recieve pics of my family, while I live in a different town for work, over the summer!

Please forward an invite to spaceman (@) fastmail.fm

Kapil

June 29th, 2004 at 4pm

I need to gift something good to my wife on her birthday and gmail is really good these days, will you be able to help me out.

Thanks
Kapil

Sky

June 25th, 2004 at 2pm

If anyone can email me an gmail invite it would be greatly appreciated…Tryin to get how this thing works but have no idea. Please send invite to skydryice@yahoo.com. And again it will be greatly sppreciated

Dilip Murthy

June 25th, 2004 at 3am

Hey guys!
I was looking for a GMAIL invite myself. Does anyone have any left?
There a few reasons as to why i want it. Apart from the 1GB hype [the size which you can get even at http://www.rediff.com
There have been reports that GMAIL doesnt load too fast on some browsers, especially IE6. Apparently the speed is better on Mozilla Firefox.

Also, some times the login page doesnt even pop up for some. I just wanted to know how and why all this happens. To do that i need an account to test different platforms of Browsers etc.

Thanks guys,
Let me know if anything is possible on this.
Dilip

short1

June 24th, 2004 at 9am

I have been looking for an invite for a very long time now. I was just loging onto msn messenger and I couldn’t believe that my friend had one, but when I went to gmail.com. And to my disappionment they haven’t pulisized it…
More or less I do some web designing, programming, and I enjoy helping my friends with their web sites.
So if anyone could please send me a gmail invite it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time
short_man_0_0@yahoo.ca

June 24th, 2004 at 8am

HELLO,

Hopefully someone nice out there might be so kind to send me a GMAIL invite.

I live in NYC, and I am into WEB DESIGN on an occasional basis.

Hopefully, someone out there would be as kind of a person and send an invite to me. What you share I will share with someone as you have done with me.

Thank you for your time and graciousness.
J.

Shashi Kant Sarda

June 23rd, 2004 at 6pm

I request you to please send me a gmail invite. I am into web programming and animations and am very enthusiastic about new developments and improvements to the world wide web. I have been trying to get one account from the time that gmail was launched but haven’t been able. I would appreciate if you could send me one as that would help me in the sort of work I do (animations and 3d modelling).

Chimera

June 23rd, 2004 at 5pm

Gmail. Hmmmmmm.I’ve been using this googlidian@yahoo.com since years. Now I still dont have a gmail account. How unfortunate can anybody get. All brothers, sisters, friends and kind guys out there, please, please extend an invite to me. It would be of utmost help and kindest gesture.

Gujju

June 23rd, 2004 at 2am

Would it be possible for me to get an invite. I really want to see what the havoc is all about and plus I can use the extra space for the mails. I would really appreciate if someone can send me an invite at gujjuzofjax@hotmail.com

Thanks,
Gujju

Lauren

June 22nd, 2004 at 1pm

What is all the fuss about G-mail anyhow? I am curious about it and I will admit that I found your blog by googling for G-mail invites. Does the idea of random strangers coming to your blog unnerve you? I’ll make this short. If you would happen to have an extra invite, I would be eternally grateful. Shameless begging I know, but thanks anyhow.

laurybug@hotmail.com

Ravi M

June 22nd, 2004 at 1am

Hi There,
I will be frank with you. I never been to your blog, until now. I am here only because of Gmail. I have been trying to get an invitation since 3 weeks. I would be really thankful if you can get me one.

Thanks a lot, my mail id is ravi_mangalagiri(AT)yahoo.com

munr0e

June 21st, 2004 at 11pm

And yet there is still a small minority without Gmail accounts. Google needs to sort itself out and start allowing people to register accounts, instead of leaving people like *me* in the dark.
{weeps}

Luke

June 18th, 2004 at 3am

There’s no regular schedule of gmail invites. The last 3 invites I got were the first 3 I got since I joined gmail (a couple months ago). And as soon as I had finished those 3, I just got another 3. Wonder what google is thinking…Trying to quash Yahoo? Need to test how it scales? No idea…

Aaron Brazell

June 18th, 2004 at 1pm

I just got mine the other day. Bought it for $7.50. Wasn’t going to but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. :)

Aaron

Patrick

June 18th, 2004 at 1am

I had to buy mine ($20) a while back, but I decided that I wasn’t going to sell or advertise my invites. I have liked sending invites out to friends that want one and don’t have one, etc. and have encouraged them to continue the giving, instead of selling their invites (which are only pulling in a few bucks now, anyway).