Re: Gmail invites (was: I Love GMail!)

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Initially, it was beta only.  They didn't want it to be GA.

now, by only allowing invites, it keeps growth from exploding so that
they aren't overloaded.


On 3/8/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The thing I don't understand is why doesn't gmail just allow people to sign
> up from the main page?  They are really into viral marketing this tooling.
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> Aaron Bartell
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> Done.
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> (and when those 98 are finished, I've got 100 more on my  _other_ gmail
> address)
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> Plus, they grow back ;-)
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> Peter Colpaert
> Application Developer
> PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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> Ok, I'll bite.
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> Make it 98 invites on the Wall!
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> Time for me to check out the gmail phenomena.  I'd like an invite also.
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> Bob
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