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This morning, I had six Gmail invites to hand out, and I decided to indiscriminately hand them out, largely because anyone I know off-line wouldn't really care about Gmail one way or another. First, I sent an email to a listserv for grad students in the Radio-TV-Film department, offering invites to the first people who email me. I got one immediate response, from a student who wanted a good alias. This student, whom I don't know, has a rather foreign-sounding name, and I wondered how quickly her desired alias would be snapped up.

RTF grad students are apparently not too keen on Gmail, as that was the only response I got. Later, I posted the same message to Converge, a mailing list for computer multimedia folks around UT, and the list and my inbox saw a flurry of requests for invites. As soon as I got home from class, I sent out another message saying that I had run out of invites, but I would hang on to the respondents' email addresses for invites down the road.

I learned an important thing today: people who subscribe to technology-related lists are probably more interested in tech stuff like Gmail than people who subscribe to lists that are only tangentially related to technology.