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00:12.33Leedsanyone awake who wants a gmail (google mail) account?  I've got some invitations I can give out...
00:15.22ClyphoxI would love one :-)
00:15.46Clyphoxhow did you get the invite?
00:16.42Leedsa mate posted on a semi-closed mailing list a while ago, saying he had a couple of invites to give out... he's a very in-the-loop person, but I'm not sure where he originally got invited
00:17.19LeedsI was one of the first 2 to reply to him, so he invited me... he posted again today saying he had more invites to give out, and when he was over-subscribed, he pointed to the two people he'd invited last time
00:17.47LeedsI replied saying that he was still an elite user, because I'd never seen the "invite a friend" link appear - until it appeared this evening :-)
00:18.00Leedsso, I need an existing address to invite you at
00:18.01Clyphoxhaha
00:19.08LeedsI've got 3 invites, and I should really reserve 2 for people on that list... you're the lucky one here :-)
00:19.36ClyphoxI am :-) has made my day
00:19.44Leedscheck your mail :-)
00:20.08Leedsand mail me - username vmlinuz - when it's active...
00:20.44Leedsit's a really nice system... not quite nice enough to tempt me away from pine and IMAP, but a lot closer than any other webmail system I've seen... it's nice for reading mailing lists, particularly - nice threading interface
00:21.02Clyphoxgood stuff :-)
00:22.44Clyphoxresudaed is going to hate me with envy har
00:23.21Leedswe watched an invite go for $112.50 on ebay the other day...
00:23.49ClyphoxWOW!
00:23.50JAVwhat is the max size of a mail?
00:23.55Leedsand it's added you to my contact list, which is nice :-)
00:23.59LeedsJAV: 10Mb, I think
00:24.48ClyphoxWonder if it filters spam automagicly (as I would expect of the google team)
00:25.11JAVnot bad for a webmail
00:25.25Clyphoxhumble 1G storage too
00:25.42Clyphoxheh, its even got keyboard shortcuts
00:25.50LeedsClyphox: it does, but I don't know how good it is... I think it learns
00:25.56Leedsthe keyboard shortcuts are really cool
00:26.21Leedswhoa...
00:26.36JAVI tried google shortcuts before but it didn't work
00:27.18Clyphoxyeah, damn slick!
00:27.27Leedsoh, and note the spell-chekcer!
00:28.00Leedsand it won't let you send HTML mail! :-)
00:28.27Clyphoxnow THAT! is a "feature" and a half!
00:28.30Leedsand it tells you off if you try to delete mail...
00:28.35JAVcaring for win users :)
00:29.05JAVi'll stay with mutt
00:29.06Leedshmm, or it used to
00:29.40Leedsas I say... it's not quite nice enough to make me give up my pine+IMAP, but it's not far off... if I could get their interface to talk to my webserver, I'd probably use it quite often
00:31.00JAV$ uprecords
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00:31.42JAVpower failed
00:32.05Clyphoxdepressing :-(
00:32.50Leedsmy best personal uptime is about 170 days, and for a hosted box, well over a year
00:33.31JAVwell, it reboots seamless, but i should buy the ups
00:34.26JAV~$ uname -a
00:34.27JAVLinux homer 2.4.23 #3 vie dic 5 19:52:52 CET 2003 i686 unknown
00:34.51JAVit was working failless since then
00:35.07JAV(power fails apart) :)
00:35.56ClyphoxI'm tempted to sign myself up for some spam to see how good it is
00:36.43Leedsyeah, I was tempted... but I just ended up on a couple of mailing lists
00:37.20ClyphoxI'm going to try to resist it anyway, don't want to sacrifice this account if it doesn't filter well
00:37.31Leedstrue
00:37.49Leedson the other hand, it *should* filter well... and it is still meant to be a beta service... :-)
00:37.54Clyphox(even though I'm 99% certain it'll do a damn good job)
00:38.13ClyphoxGoogle has this nice habit of doing things well
00:39.03JAVlike orkut? :)
00:39.47LeedsI'm well into Orkut, but I still don't quite see the point of that sort of thing
00:40.12Leedsparticularly when one of my 'friends' - an IRC friend - has John Kerry down as a friend of him, so I keep getting very chatty US political spam from him
00:40.18JAVgeek DB
00:40.40JAVJK on orkut??