On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:10:35 +0100, Rob Morley
wrote:

It used to be you had to receive an invitation to get a Google mail
account (phased introduction of a beta product or viral marketing?) but
now you can just go there and sign up.

Didn't know that. They still have an "send invite" function on my
gmail page. It was probably viral marketing, but it worked really
well!

deg