[Offtopic] gmail invitations

Christopher Jansen cjjansen at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 11:01:49 EST 2005


sorry if you wanted the link to that gmail drive

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Regards 
Chris 


On 6/11/05, Christopher Jansen <cjjansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gmail is great I have an account and think its something that is worth
> while... although you have to look at both sides of the coin....
> 
> Here is an interesting article that may be worth looking at..
> It talks about some privacy concerns with gmail
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/06/03/google.privacy.reut/
> 
> Another interesting technology is the gmail drive.... A third party
> that has written a extension of gmail
> 
> What it does is adds a virtual drive to your current HDD such as C: d:
> This virtual drive allows you to access your gmail account allowing
> you to drag and drop files into you 2 gig of storage... just like you
> would drag and drop files to your normal HDD. It then  sends an email
> to yourself with the file attached...At later stages you can access
> the files as though it was a normal drive
> Limitation: you can only drag and drop up to 10mb files as this is the
> limit for attachment emails..
> 
> Sounds cool anyway Rupert thanks for the invites
> 
> Chris Jansen
> 
> 
> On 6/9/05, Rupert Russell <rupert.russell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Off Topic Readers,
> >
> >  I have been using the Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing
> > List for a while  but this is my first posting to this list.
> >
> >  I  sent an invitation to the IT list offering gmail invitations to users
> > and received quite a few replies so I though I would repeat the offer here.
> >
> >  Gmail has bumped my invitation number back up to 50 again so I have plenty
> > to hand out.
> >
> >  A Gmail account is like a hotmail.com e-mail address but much better you
> > get 2 GB of free space and it's not Microsoft (at least now we have 2 IT
> > companies wanting to take over the world and not just one...)  Gmail also
> > has a spell checker that works very well which I find handy :-)
> >
> >  Anyway if you would like an invitation send an e-mail to my gmail address
> > which is:
> >
> >  rupert.russell1 at gmail.com
> >
> >  and I will forward on an invitation to you.
> >
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> >
> >  Rupert.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rupert Russell
> > School of Education
> > University of Ballarat
> > PO Box 663 Ballarat
> > Victoria 3353
> > AUSTRALIA
> >
> > Ph. +613 5327 9965
> > Fax. +613 5327 9717
> > e-mail:   r.russell at ballarat.edu.au
> > http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell
> >
> >
> 
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