Comments on: Gmail ready for prime time ?

By: dijit

dijit — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:16:44 +0000

Just a quick thought, keeping gmail as an invite only seems like it could help in keeping it from being abused by spammers.

Someone who is sending spam has to be invited, so they can’t sign up anonymously. And if they do get an invite from a friend, they can’t just create new accounts to send spam by inviting themselves because they’ll all link back.

By: kurisu

kurisu — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 07:15:12 +0000

The ads are only relative to the message/conversation currently displayed in the interface.
Gmail comes with a rather efficient spam filter, that puts all the junk mail in a “spam” folder.
Therefore it doesn’t display any related ads to messages placed in that folder.

By: philjfry

philjfry — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:24:47 +0000

I dont really get that gmail concept : you get a mail account, yeah, the string attached is that it comes with google ads , duh (I got that much).
But what happens if it gets spam ? Will Google put you in contact with Nigerian businessmen ? online Viagra pharmacies ? penis enhancer toyshops ? …
Any way if you’ve got too many invites, send me one. I might give it a try !