Yahoo and GMail

Indentional blocking....?

[HonorsGrad]

I just sent a GMail invitation to a friend of mine. Yahoo automatically placed it in the "Bulk Mail" (aka Spam) folder!

Think Yahoo did it intentionally..........?

I just found it interesting.

[kevinpate]

not a clue if intentional, or if the standard invite just has enough markers to trip a filter.

The invite I received arrived via bulk folder as well, but as I was told to expect it, I knew to peek before I dumped. For the invites I've sent to peeps with Y accts, I've let them know the invite was coming and that it might not land within the inbox.

[canuck]

Yeah, it seems to be just the invitations from GMail that trip the spam filter. Hotmail did the same.

Normal emails from GMail to Yahoo accounts seem to do fine though for me.

- canuck

[maluka]

I have a question that's been driving me nuts. It seems as if everyone has these Gmail invitations and like to talk about giving them away. Bloggers have gone nuts and now it's become a trend. Where are all of you getting these invitations you can give away?

[kevinpate]

Goggle gives out gmail invites to peeps who already have gmail accounts, so they can invite their friends.

Some peeps are selling the invties on ebay, but um, buying an invite for a free acct.? That's too weird for my brain to wrap around.

I believe G is also sending out invites to active bloggers, and Adwords customers, I'm not sure who all is getting the packages of 3 or so invites at a time.

Interesting little viral marketing. Spread the word to a friend, and a day or three later, the friend gets a few invites to send out, and on and on it goes. If G keeps passing out invites to all new accts. and the peeps keep sending them out, it seems to be a fairly cost effective ad campaign which enlisits lots of free foot soldiers to be the virtual door knockers.

[maluka]

Thanks for the explanation. Ebay, eh? Haha. That's a bit much for a piece of "prestige". One blog had readers looking up rare information and completing a test, something which would take hours, but he had a slew of people doing it.

I ran across a Dave Winer mixathon contest in which the best 3 get a gmail account. If you're not familiar with Winer he was a wheel in the blog and rss worlds and was responsible for 3000 blogs, some of which were several years old. He pulled the plug with no warning and all users were redirected to a page he'd made containing an mp3 of his "sorry all" speech.

I remix it if I wasn't a trend-bucker :) No gmail for this gal.

[bpresent]

Interesting little viral marketing

Indeed - and it's not a bad way to load test your servers either - and it looks like they've reached the current limit :)

[Brett_Tabke]

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[Sanenet]

Hmmm.... Supposing that Gmail releases 200.000 new accounts in a day. Quite a few of those invites will whizz off to Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts within a couple of hours - more than enough reason to trip their spam filters.