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[rynne]

I've got a gmail account now! *blows kisses to fluffyllama*

Send stuff now to rynnewrites at gmail dot com.

Now eMentoring and coding should be much easier--I won't have to keep signing in and out of yahoo all the time! And I can keep stuff longer...1000 megabytes...

I've been changing email address alerts, so now FAP, LJ, ff.net, and Regulus Y!Group stuff go the the gmail account, but it's weird--my three most important groups, the eMentor one, the coder one, and the HPfGU elf one, are for some reason not letting me change my email address. Is it to do with the fact that all of those groups have some sort of restricted membership? Those are ones I need to go to gmail for most, as most of my messages are from them, and they take up quite a bit of space in my yahoo account. ETA: I can change my email address for them now.

Also, I wasn't sure of how to change my email address for yahoo messenger (yes, I am bad with technology), so I got a new Y!ID for messenger--also rynnewrites, so go ahead and add that one on your lists. Though I want it to keep giving me notice when I get a new email--is that a yahoo!mail specific thing? It's the primary reason I even go on Y!M. If it's not specific to yahoo!mail, could someone who knows tell me how to turn on the email alerts?

Anyway, I know that MSN messenger will do the same thing, so I *cough* also changed my passport there to the gmail address (though argh, it's not doing it either!). Sorry for any inconvenience--I still have my yahoo account and I'll check it a few times a day, and everything I still need to reply to with it, I will. I just really needed the big storage capacity of gmail, hence all the changing. But I don't want to have to check my inbox every so often to know when I get a new message--I like being alerted. So should someone know what I should be doing to get that back and could explain it to me, as well as the whole problem with Y!Groups, I will appreciate it very much.

Comments

[latentfunction.livejournal.com]

1) Changing! Because even though I'm not emailing you much now I probably will at some time.

2) I have no idea how you deal with the messengers. It makes sense that YM might only alert you for Yahoo, just for them to protect their own interests and keep as much stuff on the Yahoo system as possible but that might not be the case.

3) How do you get a gmail account, anyway? I've heard good, good things about them (but never actually looked for them, hence the ignorance :P)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Grr, stupid yahoo. I want to be alerted, and msn isn't doing it properly either! I'm using the messenger, isn't that enough of an interest? *grumble grumble*

As for getting a gmail account, you have to be invited. Gmail's still in the beta-testing stage and hasn't been released to the public yet, so only users who get invites (from what I understand, invites randomly show up in a gmail inbox) can give them out to people. You want one, once I get an invite?

[latentfunction.livejournal.com]

LOL!! For some reason I'm really amused at that, like I can't get anything new without you getting it first and getting me a code. But anyway, yes please! That would rock my socks.

(And for some reason the whole invite thing just amuses me, too; I have this image of the people who got invited acting like the people who freaked out once LJ got rid of codes and complaining about all the plebes with accounts now, which really makes no sense because there's not much personal interaction based off of just having accounts with the same email provider anyway but I'm still laughing.)

[ashesofautumn.livejournal.com]

Gmail confuses me. I mean, I've picked up that it's by invitation, but is it like LJ? Click a code? ..and how have the invites spread to the HP fandom? Odd. Seems like half my flist has got one now. Gmail's the new black!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Gmai's only invite-only for now because it's in the beta-testing stages. Once Google decides that it's ready to be released to the public, I believe you'll be able to sign up for gmail the way you would yahoo or hotmail or any of those other providers. As for gmail and the HP fandom, all I know is that Heidi was the first person I know to have gotten one, and then it spread to a bunch of the rest of the FA mods, and so on...

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

What does gmail offer you?

As for Yahoo!Messenger, I wasn't aware that it allowed an ID other than a Yahoo! one.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Gmail gives me 1000 MB of storage space, which is currently about 250 times that of what yahoo gives me, and is the primary reason I wanted an account there.

All three of the messengers I have (yahoo, msn, and aim) allow you to use them even if you aren't using the service that provides them (meaning, yahoo, msn/hotmail, or aol). But I want the bloody email alerts--I get a lot of email, and some of it's rather important, and it'd be very nice to know when exactly I get something new.

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops*

1000 MB?!?!?!??!?!

And they can afford to give this out for free?!?! I mean, Yahoo! started at 6 and now dropped to 4 while MSN dropped all the way to 2 and sucks anyways.

*sighs enviously* And I only have a dinky 4MB from Yahoo!. Granted, a have a few accounts, but still.

I do hope that they'll still offer that much once it's opened to the public, but that might be a bit much...

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

Am sending fics to gmail as we speak.