GMail trying to get me into Med School

[Compass]

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Members do not see this ad.

For kicks, I clicked on the link.

Needless to say, the website seemed shady as heck. When your opening page is simply a video posted on some video host that is not YouTube, but Yiddler(?), it creeps me out.

Just something that made me laugh/cry/freak out today

 

[Evergrey]

LOL, that's pretty funny. But in the future, NoScript and Adblock Plus addons in Firefox get rid of 99% of all ads, and protect your computer from 99% of bugs at the same time. 👍

 

[dw2158]

we have the same gmail "theme" 🙂

 

[Compass]

I change my theme weekly. Last week was beach week for me. I tried planets for a day, but it seemed so dark I changed it back to mountains week.

 

[daisy44]

Gmail is advertising the University of Phoenix to me.

Thanks, Gmail...glad to know you have high hopes for me

 

[TexasFight]

I don't know why I use ymail...

gmail is so awesome, but everyone already knows my email as the ymail one 🙁

 

[Compass]

I don't know why I use ymail...

gmail is so awesome, but everyone already knows my email as the ymail one 🙁

Forward all your YMail to GMail. You can also spoof your GMail account to display your sender name as your YMail using the following
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=22370

My set-up is that all my med school email is sent to a single account that is ONLY for med school apps. We'll call this compassmedschool2009@gmail (which it isn't)
I don't log into this account EVER. I don't remember the password for it, either. Oh well.

All that mail is auto-forwarded to my main, which we'll call compass@gmail (which it isn't)

If I need to, I can reply with the compassmedschool2009 address without having to log into the super-long name. They'll reply back to the medschool address and I'll receive it on my main address regardless. Win, win!

 

[dw2158]

gmail is currently advertising the gym i belong to. good job, gmail. they already got me, no need to keep targeting me.

I don't know why I use ymail...

gmail is so awesome, but everyone already knows my email as the ymail one 🙁

set it up so the ymail forwards to the gmail and give people the gmail from here on out. problem solved.

 

[TexasFight]

gmail is currently advertising the gym i belong to. good job, gmail. they already got me, no need to keep targeting me.



set it up so the ymail forwards to the gmail and give people the gmail from here on out. problem solved.

damn I never thought of that - and I was a webmaster once...
thanks!

 

[Compass]

Use my strat 🙁 You can use your normal YMail address, but a reply-to will send it to GMail 😉

 

[johncalvin]

Forward all your YMail to GMail. You can also spoof your GMail account to display your sender name as your YMail using the following
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=22370

My set-up is that all my med school email is sent to a single account that is ONLY for med school apps. We'll call this compassmedschool2009@gmail (which it isn't)
I don't log into this account EVER. I don't remember the password for it, either. Oh well.

All that mail is auto-forwarded to my main, which we'll call compass@gmail (which it isn't)

If I need to, I can reply with the compassmedschool2009 address without having to log into the super-long name. They'll reply back to the medschool address and I'll receive it on my main address regardless. Win, win!

You may want to be careful with that. A lot of email clients will actually delineate this email address as "Sent by [email protected] ON BEHALF OF [email protected]"

If their client is configured incorrectly, adcom members/secretaries (probably at least in their 40's+ [read: technologically challenged]) will not be able to match your materials.

Trust me on this one, I got screwed on a college assignment because I used to use gmail to manage my college email account.

Update: Also, if you're trying to hide an embarrassing/colloquial email address, this is no good.
Even if the end-client at the admissions offices are configured correctly, it will say something like "sent by medschool4money&[email protected] ON BEHALF OF [email protected]

 

[link2swim06]

Gmail really does not do this. I have nearly a dozen email addresses tied into my gmail and sending from them is seamless. I have never seen what you are talking about for gmail in particular.

You may want to be careful with that. A lot of email clients will actually delineate this email address as "Sent by [email protected] ON BEHALF OF [email protected]"

If their client is configured incorrectly, adcom members/secretaries (probably at least in their 40's+ [read: technologically challenged]) will not be able to match your materials.

Trust me on this one, I got screwed on a college assignment because I used to use gmail to manage my college email account.

Update: Also, if you're trying to hide an embarrassing/colloquial email address, this is no good.
Even if the end-client at the admissions offices are configured correctly, it will say something like "sent by medschool4money&[email protected] ON BEHALF OF [email protected]

 

[johncalvin]

Gmail really does not do this. I have nearly a dozen email addresses tied into my gmail and sending from them is seamless. I have never seen what you are talking about for gmail in particular.

You wouldn't see it. It will look seamless TO YOU. The people you are sending the message would see what I am talking about. If they have Gmail, they would have to click "show details" in the email header. If they have other web-based clients, it should "look" fine. Older versions of Outlook, etc., on the other hand that's where you get this problem. Even the new outlook will clearly delineate the various linkages and senders.

As a trial, go into the "sent" section of your Gmail account, and click on a message you sent from another email account from Gmail (if that makes sense).

Then click "show details" beside the message header and you will see that all of them will will have the "mailed-by Gmail.com" line.

 

[Compass]

The underlying sender will be different, but the from header will contain your spoof address. I have not had any issues with my spoofed address either. It's not like I'm actively hiding some terrible email address.

 

[Abdullaah]

For kicks, I clicked on the link.

Needless to say, the website seemed shady as heck. When your opening page is simply a video posted on some video host that is not YouTube, but Yiddler(?), it creeps me out.

Just something that made me laugh/cry/freak out today

I've seen that exact same ad multiple times. It screams out shady... like most other things of this sort.