Hmmmm...

Thank you thank you thank you to the many people who provided me with invites to gmail. I appreaciate it!

I havent seen any spam as yet, and even my cox in box has tons.
Leave it to the lounge to help people go undercover

I love my g-mail accounts. I'll have to check on how many invites I have now. I just don't look at that very often.

I like the fact that a yahoo group I belong to doesn't get bounce backs from gmail like it did with my non free e-mail account. I have never run out of space and now that I have seen it mentioned, I don't get any spam what so ever!

I have my own theory on the non-spam factor.

It's my totally unsupported by fact opinion that most free accounts sell subscriber email info to marketers. Which would explain how I can create an account and have spam in it before even telling anyone the address.

It is likewise my totally unsupported by fact opinion that gmail acts as a middle man advertising filter. Rather than sell your address blindly, they mine your email for relevant content and match that up with advertising on their end -- and bill the advertisers. Or some variation.

So you get marketed to either way, but one way is targeted (benefits advertisers) and doesn't involve selling your account address (benefits customers.)

Again, I have no facts to support these theories. And I recall reading an article where some hotmail exec swore they didn't sell addresses. But I don't believe them for a second.

I signed up for a G-Mail account when it first came out.

I got a message the other day saying "you signed up but aren't using it - how come?"

I have a hard enough time with the G Spot to worry about G Mail