As I’ve mentioned before, I’m now a happy user of Google’s Gmail service. I find it makes my bulk e-mail much easier to manage, and thus frees up my regular e-mail in-box for one-to-one correspondence. (I currently only use Gmail for bulk e-mail subscriptions or alerts, but you can use it for all your e-mail if you want.)
Gmail is still an invitation-only service. Lately, Google has been very generous with the number of invitations it allots to Gmail users to redistribute. Right now, everyone I know who wants Gmail has gotten an invitation from me – yet I still have plenty leftover, and I keep getting more. What to do with those extra invitations?…
(NOTE OCT. 12: Several people have written to me asking for Gmail invites. Sorry, I don’t have any, and I’m not maintaining a waiting list.)
iSnoop.net has created a neat little Gmail invite spooler, which collects unused Gmail invitations and makes them available to anyone who wants Gmail. It’s first-come, first-served, you need to keep checking that site until they have some invitations available and grab one. But it works.
Now, every time I have extra Gmail invitations I send them to this address: gmail@isnoop.net. In the “name” fields of the “invite a friend to Gmail” window I enter “A. Donation.” Then, instead of the standard Gmail message that goes with the invitation, I leverage a miniscule amount of publicity for my blog by including this note: “Courtesy of Amy Gahran, author of CONTENTIOUS (http://blog.contentious.com).” (Thanks to Boing Boing for this link.)
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