Re: GMail

Hi,

Some added comments. HTH

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:13:14 -0600, Stephen Andert <stephenandert_at_firsthealth.com> wrote:
> The downside to using a distributor is that invitations appear to be
> replenished depending on being accepted and activated. Also, once you
> send the e-mail, it expires in 3 weeks.
>

Its likely if you send someone a gmail invite, and they do not use it, they may not have seen it. Some mail gets blocked as spam, missed, whatever. Obviously.

But, you have a couple options as the person sending out the invites. When you send an invite from gmail, a copy of the *complete* invite goes into your sent folder. This is very important, because if someone does not use the invite, the *secret* link for the invite may be reused by forwarding the sent message (up to three weeks before it expires). Or, you can notify the person you invited and resend the invite, etc. Its probably not a great idea to forward the same invite to many people. ;-)

If you have ever used gmail for the oracle-l list, you will probably like the way it collapses threads for easy viewing. I'm saving a lot of time using gmail over yahoo, for example.

Regards,

Mike Thomas
a.k.a. mhthomas at yahoo.com

PS: Like Daniel (uberdba at gmail.com) already said, most of us working with him have plenty of invites because we get replenished every week. I only invite based on requests through Daniel on oracle-l. :-)

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