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19 Oct 2005, 17:53
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gmail changing to googlemail.
Oh cock. Some bastards made google change their email service from gmail.com to googlemail.com in the UK. Non-UK residents are not affected. There is a chance they'll change our email addresses from gmail.com to googlemail.com in the future. So we need to convince them we're from chad or somewhere.
I can't find an option to change 'country of origin'... Go go go GD!
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19 Oct 2005, 17:54
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Gone
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
Who ****ing cares?
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19 Oct 2005, 17:55
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
People with gmail accounts who don't want their email address changed.
Any more questions ****o?
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19 Oct 2005, 17:55
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Gone
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
So, fags, basically?
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19 Oct 2005, 17:56
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
Real people get a domain and their own email addresses, none of this free shite.
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19 Oct 2005, 17:58
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
bad joke of the day: why don't cigarettes give birth? because they're fags!
thanks to yawhe for giving me the inspiration.
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19 Oct 2005, 18:37
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
I never use it anyway. Don't really care either way
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19 Oct 2005, 18:57
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
i use my gmail account a -lot- so yeah, would like help with this also
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19 Oct 2005, 19:07
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
Real people get a domain and their own email addresses, none of this free shite.
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I have my own domain and email account on it.
GMail is far superior.
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19 Oct 2005, 19:11
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
I can't see any regional setting either, they must get it from your IP.
New UK account signups may be googlemail but existing accounts aren't affected, at least not in the short term. People who send stuff to your gmail address will still reach you, and that seems unlikely to change (though they don't promise).
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/int...ooglemail.html
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19 Oct 2005, 19:13
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Weeks
bad joke of the day: why don't cigarettes give birth? because they're fags!
thanks to yawhe for giving me the inspiration.
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I thought we established that it was because they don't have vaginas....
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Quote:
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Gay ducks only do it because it impresses their peers.
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19 Oct 2005, 19:23
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NEWSBOT
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Leshy
I have my own domain and email account on it.
GMail is far superior.
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sucks to be you :P
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19 Oct 2005, 19:32
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
They seem to get your country from the IP you used when you signed up.
Either someone starts a thread on gmail groups saying: I created my gmail account when on holiday in the UK, I'm not back in chad. Can you please provide a service that will allow me to change my account from a UK account to a chad account? Or just delete your gmail account, get someone not in the UK to start up the same account and give it back to you. Did I mention how much I ****ing love the dutch Leshy?
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19 Oct 2005, 19:44
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IRC Lackey
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by _ryzekiel_
i use my gmail account a -lot- so yeah, would like help with this also
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I use my gmail account for just about everything real life.
It'd **** me up good and proper if they changed it :|
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19 Oct 2005, 19:57
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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all new accounts will have @googlemail.com addresses.
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everyone who has registered before 19/9/05 seems to be safe.
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Originally Posted by Question 5
What if I'm a UK user who already has a Gmail address? Will I also need to change that address?
No, this change doesn’t affect existing Gmail addresses. For now, our plan is only to issue @googlemail.com addresses to new users. Trust that we will do the best we can to offer all our users a reliable and consistent email experience.
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19 Oct 2005, 20:05
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
What if I'm a UK user who already has a Gmail address? Will that address ever change?
Unfortunately, we don't know. We would love to say that your address will always remain the same. But the trademark issue is still unsettled, and unfortunately, we cannot predict what the other party or the courts might do here. You can always use your same username with an @googlemail.com address to avoid this issue later on. But trust that we will do the best we can to make sure your email address won't ever have to change.
I've out cut-and-pasted you.
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19 Oct 2005, 21:21
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
I'm assuming the dispute is with the people who have gmail.co.uk.
Their logo looks like a rip off of Deloitte, do they have nothing original?
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19 Oct 2005, 21:43
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Weeks
What if I'm a UK user who already has a Gmail address? Will that address ever change?
Unfortunately, we don't know. We would love to say that your address will always remain the same. But the trademark issue is still unsettled, and unfortunately, we cannot predict what the other party or the courts might do here. You can always use your same username with an @googlemail.com address to avoid this issue later on. But trust that we will do the best we can to make sure your email address won't ever have to change.
I've out cut-and-pasted you.
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true
but we are still safe for now
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19 Oct 2005, 22:57
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
'for now' isn't really good enough though.
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20 Oct 2005, 00:00
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
I'm sure they won't just delete everyone's user accounts. There'll be some form of forwarding from your [email protected] address to a [email protected] address instead.
Quit panicking ladies.
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20 Oct 2005, 01:17
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
I get unlimited email accounts with all my domains, so if anyone wants one (I don't use half of them) I can give them out for anyone who wants them. Wont have the 2GB storage though. :0
Guaranteed never to change domains:
sharewonders.com
ambientchill.com
ogremasters.com
nativechecks.com
mycomfortmobility.com
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20 Oct 2005, 09:15
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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I get unlimited email accounts with all my domains
mycomfortmobility.com
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20 Oct 2005, 09:26
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
I'm sure they won't just delete everyone's user accounts. There'll be some form of forwarding from your [email protected] address to a [email protected] address instead.
Quit panicking ladies.
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they've not said that!
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20 Oct 2005, 09:34
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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they've not said that!
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well i guess that's what i get for not reading the information properly and just adding my point of view without anything to back up my argument
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20 Oct 2005, 10:28
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Weeks
What if I'm a UK user who already has a Gmail address? Will that address ever change?
Unfortunately, we don't know. We would love to say that your address will always remain the same. But the trademark issue is still unsettled, and unfortunately, we cannot predict what the other party or the courts might do here. You can always use your same username with an @googlemail.com address to avoid this issue later on. But trust that we will do the best we can to make sure your email address won't ever have to change.
I've out cut-and-pasted you.
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OK... So where did you find that bit? I've read and re-read the page you linked to and the BBC News version and can't find the bit you pasted anywhere. All I can find is:
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Originally Posted by Gmail FAQ
4 What if I'm a UK user who already has a Gmail address? Will I also need to change that address?
No, this change doesn’t affect existing Gmail addresses. For now, our plan is only to issue @googlemail.com addresses to new users. Trust that we will do the best we can to offer all our users a reliable and consistent email experience.
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Interestingly even if it does happen we might not have anything to worry about anyway.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BBC News
German users with this address report that e-mail sent to their username but ending with "@gmail.com" instead of "@googlemail.com" will still arrive at its destination.
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20 Oct 2005, 12:36
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
A2, you're right. They updated the FAQ and removed the question I was quoting from.
I hope this is the end of the suspected change.
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20 Oct 2005, 12:40
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
Well, it's not like they have to turn over the domain, so there'd be no technical reason they couldn't forward mail on.
Although in an article I had read the guy who had registered the g-mail trademark said he had also done so in the United States. And apparently he had been contacted by various parties who were willing to contribute any legal action (in exchange for a slice of the pie of any settlement).
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20 Oct 2005, 12:47
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
Well, the people who've been using gmail in the UK could demand google stop using gmail.com for uk users altogther, which could also prohibit forwarding. It all depends how arsey the UK company gets.
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20 Oct 2005, 14:38
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Re: gmail chaning to googlemail.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
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That's the hosting (I wasn't using it), I still own the domain.
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