A regular correspondent here, Arthur from near Truro, was kind enough to extend a G-mail account to me which I have dubbed genx40 "at" gmail "dot" "calm". I will link it up over to the side somehow and you can tell all your viagara wholesaler pals.
Later: The first wierd thing I notice is no hyphen. Email started...well after it stopped being "electronic mail"...started as "e-mail" but now we are all just writing "email" as the "e" can perfectly well stand alone as its own syllable without the hyphen. So it is weird to see "gmail" rather than "g-mail" as the "g" can't do what the "e" can. It looks to me like the name of a minor elf in Lord of the Rings, Gmail of Gmelador, the shorter not so pretty elf.
Later Later: For some reason, I could not create a link to the Gmail URL to place in the horde of URLs to your right on the screen (my left). Thank goodness for Tiny URL which allows for URL conversion. So far Tiny URL is more useful than Gmail.
Comments
alfons - June 30, 2004 11:12 am
Uhm, email address encoding? :-)<p>
See this web site.
Alan - June 30, 2004 11:25 am
The hot spot above worked for me to trigger the email app. I am not as smart as I appear in text, Alfons, so give me a little more detail between your pre-Portugal sips of Grolsch.
Kim - June 30, 2004 11:37 am
Last week I finally caved and got a gmail account too. It's actually pretty good and once I learn how to use the thing, I may like it even more LOL I am just a Google Whore! That reminds me Alan - my URL has change if you wanted to update me ~ Thanks!
Alan - June 30, 2004 11:40 am
Hey, nice redesign! Link has been amended.
alfons - June 30, 2004 2:55 pm
Alan, I referred to encoding your a href="emailto" link. This way you prevent harvesters to get your email address.
Alan - June 30, 2004 3:07 pm
Gotcha
Alan - June 30, 2004 3:20 pm
Obfuscation operation termination achieved.
Alan - July 4, 2004 8:44 pm
Interesting to note that Gmail provides your threads of correspondence with Google ads relating to the content of the emails. Also interesting to note that the "Jet on a Stick" emails confounded Google and no ads appeared.