I just went to login to Gmail and noticed that they have now opened Gmail signup to the public…the address to signup for a gmail account is http://mail.google.com/mail/signup [1] or you can just go to gmail.com [2] and click the signup link.
Here are some screenshots (click to enlarge).
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Update 11/08/2006 3:42pm: Based on the feedback I’m getting, it looks like Google are rolling out this signup page on a limited basis…Australia seems to be ahead of most of the rest of the world in that regard. It could be just to be a tease, but it is probably to stop an avalanche of automated signup robots trying to get Gmail accounts.
Also, I’m definetly on the slashdot “auto-reject” list for story submissions…every story I’ve submitted in the last couple months has been rejected within five minutes, and I know from previous experience that it takes many hours for the editors to get around to each submission, looks like they’ve got a scheduled job every 5-10 minutes to reject submissions from a certain list of people. I suppose I shouldn’t have written that submission criticising slashdot editors…but not allowing submissions from me is my loss, and just proves that they are lunatics.
End update
Samuel
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#1 Comment By mark On August 12, 2006 @ 7:08 am
Very interesting. It’s about time they opened it up. I own something like 8 GMail accounts via self-invites.
#2 Comment By Samuel On August 14, 2006 @ 11:42 pm
I have a few…mostly disused…some probably closed by now due to excessive inactivity (most of my disused ones have been idle for at least eight months).