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tommy04 · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 22

[WILD SPEC]Google Connection?

**Posted:** Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:58 pm

sherpa

They've offered them to Blogger users for a while now and still do. It's not a closed window. There have been a few specs before on why Dana doesn't have a hotmail account, I think one of the most sensible ideas was just that it's more realistic to not have everyone use the same provider Smile

Plus, using a competitor's services means you can road-test them AND not waste your own disk space on an account that's going to get a /lot/ of email. Smile

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:27 am

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Also, the fact that Gmail offers a gig of free space makes a lot of sence with the downpour of emails Dana must recieve. I wouldn't be surprised if the Hotmail emails weren't forwarded or POP3'd to the Gmail account for storage every so often.

sherpa

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:35 am

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Ack. I meant Dana. Lack of sleep, sorry. It's fixed.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:51 am

Atrophied

Meh, I have a free 1G email... walla.com gives them away, no invite, no charge. no big deal really.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:50 am

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I thought it was interesting that Dana had a Gmail account (as do I), but I don't think it's particularly significant... Other then the fact that her journal is on Blogger, so (if anything) it would be suspicious for her NOT to have one. It's really not that hard to get a Gmail account. Once you know somebody who has one, because after a while, they start giving you invites to give out, and you get more and more invites over time...

Rather like a virus.

Though I did offer the SP a Gmail invite so poor Aunt M could finally have her regular email address back. Smile

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:54 am

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A puppet master would be able to get a GMail account easily. Last month something like a million invites got sent.

[EDIT] Deleted repeated phrase.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:22 pm

ThunderRazor · Veteran Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 96 Location: meido

gmail is easy to get.

I have a gmail account, as do many of my friends. Via no connection to google whatsoever

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:38 pm

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tommy04 · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 22

Bungie is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft owns Hotmail.
Bungie is using G-Mail and Blogger- from Google, a competitor.

Why would MS allow Bungie to do that? MS probably would have given them a premium Hotmail account with extra space. Why Gmail?

And I think Blogger stopped the beta invites before Dana's blog was made. Strange.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:42 pm

leova

maybe to make the MS-bungie/Haunted Apiary/HALO connection less obvious at the beginning?

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:18 pm

cruci · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:37 am

tommy04 · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 22

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:19 am

MarauderIIC · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 18

Why not? It's not like they'll invite someone by using gmail, and advertising it doesn't get many more users for google -- since gmail is invitation only. And I don't think asking a friend for an invite would help much, since most (probably) are like, "I have some gmail invites. Want an account?" If they're even considering inviting you.

Edit - So all they're doing is using up competitor's stuff. At least, from my point of view...

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:09 pm

Shyndy

Or its like Deus Ex 2 and Google = Microsoft Very Happy

**Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:57 am

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