[OT] Ποιός θέλει GMail accounts?

[Christos Ricudis]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:36:44 +0100
George Daflidis-Kotsis <gdk at thus.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:03:53PM +0300, Harris Kosmidhs wrote:
> 
> > Pos akribos exetai "prosklhseis"?? Dhaldh o ka8enas pou exei account 
> > mporei na steilei prosklhsh se allon?
> 
> Oxi, apla ana diasthmata blepeis sto account sou ena link pou 
> leei kati san "You have 5 available invitations to GMail", 
> clickareis panw kai stelneis ena se kapoio all email address.
> 
> Den 3erw an uparxei kapoio pattern bash tou opoiou emfanizontai ta 
> invitations.

Oi idioi isxyrizontai oti ta invitations moirazontai sthn user base tous sthn tyxh. Den to polypisteyw, mallon einai usage-based. 

Another interesting tidbits about gmail : 

1) Kanei reserve usernames. To "ricudis" htan unavailable, par'oti DEN yparxei tetoio account - an steileis mail sto ricudis at gmail.com epistrefei pisw. Mexri prin ligo kairo mporouses na elegkseis thn yparksh enos account apo tis diaforetikes apanthseis poy sou edine to "Forgot your password" link. Twra to exoun kanei obfuscate arketa. 

Me mia proxeirh ereyna, fainetai oti kanei reserve to username foobar
otan bgazei panw apo peripou 1000 results sto google.com ws "foobar@" (prosekste oti to google kanei filter-out to @ sto telos, ta results gia to "koko@" einai idia akribws me ta results gia to "koko", an den to kaneis disabmbiguate perissotero ws koko at lala.com h koko at blabla.edu - profanws o periorismos einai texnhtos). Fantazomai oti ayrio-me8ayrio 8a er8oun na mou poylhsoun to ricudis at gmail.com 

2) Prospa8oun na mhn deixnoun ti kariolhdes einai sto data mining alla tous ksefeygei. Ta enallaktika usernames pou mou eixe proteinei enanti tou "unavailable" username 'ricudis' htan : 

christos.ricudis
cricudis
ricudischr

...bla bla bla, ola a8wa kai kala, mexri pou mou petakse ena : 

ricudiscste

Dedomenou oti to patrwnymo mou einai Stefanos, kai ayto den htan dhlwmeno POU8ENA sto invitation information (oute to 'ste' emfanizetai poy8ena mesa sto "Christos Ricudis") to parapanw username mporw na pw oti me TROMAKSE. OK, nai, einai grammeno sto biografiko mou, alla apo to EKEI mexri na to kanei /swsta/ harvest to google yparxei mia apostash. 


Symperasmata : 


GOOGLE IS EVIL. 

GOOGLE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. 

GOOGLE IS ECHELON.

GOOGLE IS HOSTED ON THE CIA HEADQUARTERS AT LANGLEY, VIRGINIA

GOOGLE IS HIRING EXTRATERRESTIAL PH.D'S 

POU EINAI TO HALOPERIDIIIN MOUUUU? 
 
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