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Ok since alot of us are in the united kingdom we are forced to use @googlemail.com emails when signing up.
Surely if you know a friend outwith the UK and Germany you can just get them to set your email account up and you will have an @gmail.com address, once they set it up they give you the password and then you can edit your details such as security question, name etc...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Well yes, but why would you want two gmail accounts  ...and you would have to know people outwith the UK  (I don't)
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:07 am Post subject: |
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I haven't heard about that... being forced to use an @googlemail.com...
that's interesting... http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html
I guess you can lie about where you are at... o_O Say you live in America...
90210 areacode O_O XD if you get that, you have way too much time on your hands...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| Trikinomitry101 wrote: | I haven't heard about that... being forced to use an @googlemail.com...
that's interesting... http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html
I guess you can lie about where you are at... o_O Say you live in America...
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It doesn't even ask you ...it must rely on IP addresses 
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yes thats what I mean, it automatically gives you @googlemail.com because it detects you are in the United Kingdom by your IP/Proxy/Hostname.
If you just get someone outside(who you know) to create the account for you then it would be @gmail.com 
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Well that's crappy o_O Try a proxy...
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:19 am Post subject: |
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Already tried the proxy, used an american proxy.
It does work 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: |
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yeah you can use proxy sites to create @gmail addresses.
Though I wonder if current users in the uk who have a @gmail address will have to change to @googlemail.com?
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:24 am Post subject: |
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I am in the UK and have the same problem when trying to create a new GMail account - luckily I got an @gmail.com e-mail address before the restrictions came in.
I am thinking of starting a new topic called "Want a GMail address when you are in the UK?", where people in the UK ask for a username(@gmail.com) adress and then someone (outside UK/Germany) with a lot of invites will send themselves an invite, create the account asked for, and then PM the person in the UK with the password. Rekon its worth doing? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| oli888 wrote: | I am in the UK and have the same problem when trying to create a new GMail account - luckily I got an @gmail.com e-mail address before the restrictions came in.
I am thinking of starting a new topic called "Want a GMail address when you are in the UK?", where people in the UK ask for a username(@gmail.com) adress and then someone (outside UK/Germany) with a lot of invites will send themselves an invite, create the account asked for, and then PM the person in the UK with the password. Rekon its worth doing? |
Probably not... Why don't we just set up a thread about how to use an american proxy for signing up?(I have good idea's, eh?)
Found a nice story about the problem ^_^ we can send loads of hatemail to the people involved!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah - I sent an e-mail to www.gmail.co.uk (I was going to send one to www.gmail.de but my German is not quite good enough at the moment). The UK Gmail didn't reply. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: |
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you sent an email to a website address?....ok...
We can still get @gmail.com, we're just not supposed to.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you'd have to use a proxy. This is due to legal issues with the "gmail" name in the UK.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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i'm reading over this and....ha ha .....i'm in the U...S..of A and i don't have to worry about it  ...lol....nah...if you people don't feel like going through with the whole proxy thing, i'll just send one to ya.
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