>>>If anyone is still looking for them, I have 4 GMail invites left.
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>>>Just respond to this thread. First 4 requests get them. (I need an email address to send the invites to).
>>>If your email address on file with UT is OK then say so and I'll use that one.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
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>>I have seen a message before about Gmail but still don't get it. Could you (or someone) explain briefly what is GMail and why everybody is so much after it?
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>>Thank you.
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>www.gmail.com
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>GMail is an e-mail offered by Google. Still in beta, that's why you need an invitation.
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>They were the first, AFAIK, to offer 1 GB space for free - and that is the part which many find tempting. Also, they claim to have great search tools, to search amongst your e-mails.
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>I think you can access through POP3, too.
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>The interesting part is that after they started offering 1 GB - although still in Beta! - Yahoo! increased their offer from 4 or 6 MB to 250, HotMail promised 250 (instead of 2) - so far, this is a promise only, at least for some users, and GMX (the one I use, from Germany), from 20 MB to 1 GB.
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>Since GMX offers both POP3 and WWW access, you can probably understand why I am not very interested to get yet another address.

Hilmar,

Thank you for the explanation. The only thing that would be interesting to me is access through POP3. So we will see if they offer it when it is released.