Calling all Google Mail users

Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so - see
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001

Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you so
there's nothing to lose.

Fascinating claim by Google - "...we estimate this name change will save
something like 60 million keystrokes a day. At approximately 217 microjoules
per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!"

V

On Fri, 07 May 2010 23:34:28 +0100, Victor Delta wrote:

> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so -
> see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>
> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you so
> there's nothing to lose.

Mine always WAS gmail - so nothing to do!




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"Victor Delta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so -
> see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>
> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you so
> there's nothing to lose.
>
> Fascinating claim by Google - "...we estimate this name change will save
> something like 60 million keystrokes a day. At approximately 217
> microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved
> every day!"
>

Interesting reasons they give for the change.
What is real reason?
I always thought the reason gmail not used was because that someone in the
UK already owned that name, googlemail was used in its place.
Regards
David

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>

>>
>
> Interesting reasons they give for the change.
> What is real reason?
> I always thought the reason gmail not used was because that someone in the
> UK already owned that name, googlemail was used in its place.

Got in the FAQ

Why did you change the name from Google Mail to Gmail?
A little more than a year after Gmail first launched, Google changed the
name of its webmail service in the United Kingdom to "Google Mail" due to
negotiations over a trademark dispute. We have reached a settlement, so we
are happily changing the name back to Gmail, and offering @gmail.com
addresses to all Google Mail users in the UK. Plus, it's shorter and easier
to type this way

Regards
David

>
>> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so -
>> see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>>
>> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you so
>> there's nothing to lose.
>
> Mine always WAS gmail - so nothing to do!

And so is mine, and I signed up for it in the UK during the moratorium.
I can't remember what hoops I needed to jump through, only that
it was child's-play. A proxy server perhaps.

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On Sat, 08 May 2010 09:43:36 +0100, Graham. wrote:


>>> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so
>>> - see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>>>
>>> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you
>>> so there's nothing to lose.
>>
>> Mine always WAS gmail - so nothing to do!
>
> And so is mine, and I signed up for it in the UK during the moratorium.
> I can't remember what hoops I needed to jump through, only that it was
> child's-play. A proxy server perhaps.

Even more child's play for me...I signed up while it was still 'legal'...!



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On 07/05/10 23:34, Victor Delta wrote:
> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so -
> see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>
> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you so
> there's nothing to lose.
>
> Fascinating claim by Google - "...we estimate this name change will save
> something like 60 million keystrokes a day. At approximately 217
> microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved
> every day!"
>
> V

Two of mine were gmail already as they were set up in the US. I never
understood why they changed in the UK from gmail to googlemail anyway.

Ivor

On 08/05/10 12:29, Andy Burns wrote:
> Ivor Jones wrote:
>
>> I never
>> understood why they changed in the UK from gmail to googlemail anyway.
>
> Europe-wide fallout from an existing user of the trademark "gmail", they
> still don't allow gmail.com addresses for German Google users.
>
> http://www.gmail.de/
>

I can't see why not. gmail.com and gmail.de are different domains.

As an aside, why is it that only the UK seems to use the sub-level below
the country code, i.e. .co.uk rather than simply .uk as is done in .de
and other countries..?

Ivor

Ivor Jones <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> As an aside, why is it that only the UK seems to use the sub-level below
> the country code, i.e. .co.uk rather than simply .uk as is done in .de
> and other countries..?

Historical mapping from the JaNET's ISO protocols ("coloured
books") and naming conventions. This allowed the straightforward
mapping of addresses such as (E-Mail Removed)er <-->
(E-Mail Removed). At the time, The JNT was very protective
of "its" uk domain and had a very strong push towards keeping academia and
commerce apart. So if commercial organisations could actually register
at all (which early on wasn't usually possible) they got put into the
uk.co. part to make it clear they weren't academia.

I think later there was an agreement between the JNT owning uk.ac ==
ac.uk and UKNet (commercial offshoot from University of Kent) owning uk.co
== co.uk, so that each managed its own part of the UK namespace. Only
later did the other second level domains such as nhs, sch, police,
and gov become organised.

At least, that's my take on the story :-)
Chris

On Sat, 08 May 2010 12:24:03 +0100, Ivor Jones wrote:

> On 07/05/10 23:34, Victor Delta wrote:
>> Worth making the simple change to Gmail if you haven't already done so
>> - see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...&answer=159001
>>
>> Mail sent to old Google Mail addresses will still be delivered to you
>> so there's nothing to lose.
>>
>> Fascinating claim by Google - "...we estimate this name change will
>> save something like 60 million keystrokes a day. At approximately 217
>> microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved
>> every day!"
>>
>> V
>
> Two of mine were gmail already as they were set up in the US. I never
> understood why they changed in the UK from gmail to googlemail anyway.

It's explained at the link - a copyright issue, now resolved.

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