lenseman
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Gmail users in Germany were likely surprised late last week when instead of gaining access to their email, they were greeted with a mysterious message from the folks at Google.
The plain text message, which started popping up sometime on Friday, reads, "We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead. If you're traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either - Bummer."
For the full article, see:
http://www.thelocal.de/12667/20080623/
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regards David
"Away Sea-boats crew - Special Sea Dutymen, Close-up"
Skype: lenseman-uk
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BrendanS
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Same thing happened in the UK in 2005
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See http://www.frappr.com/ybw to add yourself to the forum map
and as everyone else is doing it
www.plaintalkconsulting.co.uk
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lenseman
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regards David
"Away Sea-boats crew - Special Sea Dutymen, Close-up"
Skype: lenseman-uk
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curve
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Why on earth didn't that bloke just sell the domain name for a large sum to Google?
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JeremyShaw
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The difference is that in the UK you can still keep a gmail account if you had it early enough. I suspect that if you got a friend in the US to set it up for you it would be fine too. Otherwise it has to be googlemail.
I guess Google didn't research the copyright issues on the name gmail thoroughly enough.
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ean_p
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thats not so as i opened a google mail account only 4 weeks ago and it can be addressed as either xxx@googlemail.com or xxx@gmail.com and they both come through to me as the same account. as such gmail here is just shorthand for googlemail.
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