text: i finally noticed your email address. your invite is on the way. ignore my other email.\n\nHere is some information that will help you with GMail.\n\nNOTE: THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! GMAIL IS STILL BEING BETA TESTED SO THE PART YOU FIRST SEE WHEN YOU FIRST LOGIN ISN"T WORKING CORRECTLY YET. NOT ALL OF THE FEATURES IN THAT SECTION HAVE BEEN ADDED YET. AT THE VERY TOP YOU WILL SEE A LINK THAT SAYS "STANDARD VIEW" CLICK ON IT TO GET TO THE WORKING PART OF GMAIL.\n\nOne of the best features is how easy it is to keep up with a conversation with a single friend. All of your previous posts to that\nperson are right there for you to review in case you forgot what you were talking about. Another good feature is that everyone that emails you is automatically added into your contacts list (address book). Currently there is no way to opt out of that. Maybe later they will add that feature.\n\nGMail is currently in beta testing and isn't ready to be released to the general public. This is why you had to be invited to use it instead of just signing up for it like you would normally do with everything else. Because it is still being tested it will occasionally not do what you want it to do. When this happens keep trying until it gives up and report it to one of the following GMail Help groups below.\n\nUsually after a week or two you will be given the ability to invite others to Gmail. You will know when the time comes because a form will appear in the lower-left corner of your screen. Also when answering an email you will see a link that says "Invite So And So To Gmail". So and so is the name of the person you are emailing.\n\nhttp://groups-beta.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion\n\nhttp://groups-beta.google.com/group/Gmail-Generation\nhttp://s90215429.onlinehome.us/sjvilla79/content/gg-faq.html\n\nOther helpful GMail links.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail\nhttp://email.about.com/od/gmail/\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=gmail&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N\n\nPLUS ADDRESSING\n\nGmail also supports "plus-addressing" of emails. Messages can be sent to addresses in the form: gmail.user+extratext@gmail.com where extratext can be any string. Plus-addressing allows users to sign up for different services with different aliases and then easily filter all e-mails from those services. It does not appear, however, that the +string feature works when sending email from a gmail account to itself. Additionally (in some cases) the string appended to the e-mail address may not be longer than six characters. Below is an example.\nfred@gmail.com and fred+amazon+shopping will send email to the same inbox.