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Dex13
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Jun 16, 2004, 07:30 PM
 
So Go Here and Hope You get The Right Number That is Randomized � and could you write an Apple Script to have the browser refresh for you?

CliCK ME
( Last edited by Dex13; Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27 PM. )
     
mitchell_pgh
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Jun 16, 2004, 07:37 PM
 
Grrr, I was going to use the account to send my sick grandmother an email.

DAMN YOU GMAIL!!!!1111!!
     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 16, 2004, 07:41 PM
 
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Grrr, I was going to use the account to send my sick grandmother an email.

DAMN YOU GMAIL!!!!1111!!
WTF?
     
gorickey
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Jun 16, 2004, 07:54 PM
 
I won.

24.
     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 18, 2004, 10:49 PM
 
Bump �

They Just Added 290 more emails.
     
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Jun 19, 2004, 12:03 AM
 
Link seems broken.
I really want one of those

Those cows won't know what hit 'em. They won't know what hit them even after it hits them, because they're cows.
     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 19, 2004, 12:23 AM
 
It was just working a minute ago � I gave up after my R button popped off �

I'll look into it �
     
zachs
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Jun 19, 2004, 12:24 AM
 
Originally posted by Dex13:
It was just working a minute ago � I gave up after my R button popped off �

I'll look into it �
Yeah, I've been hitting Command-R for the last 45 minutes. At one point either my finger or the R button will break...or both.
     
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Jun 19, 2004, 12:41 AM
 
That's a bad link. It takes you to another website.

Go here:

http://gmailmachine.mmgn.com/
     
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Jun 19, 2004, 02:00 AM
 
The closest I've gotten is 1343. Not that that really means anything.
     
Agasthya
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Jun 19, 2004, 02:19 AM
 
The reason the site was iffy for a while was because he was changing it from 1 in 50,000 odds to 1 in 100,000 odds.
     
CharlesS
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Jun 19, 2004, 02:57 AM
 
I tried reloading the page a few times before I got bored. Wow, watch the bandwidth and hit counters increase between reloads. Even at 2 in the morning, it was adding about 1,000 more hits and 0.01 GB of bandwidth every time.

This guy is going to have one heck of a server bill at the end of the month...

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Oisín
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Jun 19, 2004, 03:42 AM
 
Hmm...

Just hit 100 GB bandwidth used and 21,500,000 views...

That's a bit...

I got 1336 as my first number. Then the next ten were all between 98,000 and 99,999 and then I got bored...
     
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Jun 19, 2004, 07:27 AM
 

If you post in the MacNN Gmail thread, you'll get an invite within hours... :/
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
CallumM
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Jun 19, 2004, 06:37 PM
 
The page now seems to be down
     
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Jun 19, 2004, 10:08 PM
 
Originally posted by CallumM:
The page now seems to be down
i wonder why
     
Agasthya
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:06 PM
 
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/upadhya/www/gmail.zip

Made in REALbasuck but it works well. Opens 200 sockets to that site and if you have the bandwidth it will go nuts.



Have fun.
     
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:20 PM
 
Originally posted by Agasthya:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/upadhya/www/gmail.zip

Made in REALbasuck but it works well. Opens 200 sockets to that site and if you have the bandwidth it will go nuts.
Only took me 90,000 connects to win. When you win, the source of the winning page is displayed in the editfield. Copy it, open omniweb, go to the gmail machine page, replace the source of the page with whats on your clipboard, and save. Then fill out the form (don't use a yahoo/hotmail/some other free webmail service though, as they tend to block or mark the invite messages as spam).
     
Agasthya
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:28 PM
 
Originally posted by nforcer:
Only took me 90,000 connects to win.
So quickly! I just posted the app 20 mins ago. Perhaps you have some insider information...like the source code.
     
nforcer
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:33 PM
 
Originally posted by Agasthya:
So quickly! I just posted the app 20 mins ago. Perhaps you have some insider information...like the source code.
Maybe I do... maybe I DO....

Or maybe I have an amazing OC 256 connection.

Or maybe I have both...

Or maybe I'm full of crap, and you were right the first time
     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:34 PM
 
Originally posted by Agasthya:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/upadhya/www/gmail.zip

Made in REALbasuck but it works well. Opens 200 sockets to that site and if you have the bandwidth it will go nuts.
Have fun.

I love you, now all my buddies can get one

     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:41 PM
 


After 1206 refresh attempts the damn website went down




:edit:

Google Cached the website and I got this off of it �

More Updates - Tuesday 2:39 PM
Someone has hacked my gmail account ([email protected]) making it impossible for me to get into to send out codes to all of you. Everytime someone wins on the site it sends an email to that account, so i can send you a code. But i can't get into that email, if anyone else can figure out a method into the account that would be great, but until then i can't send out invites to anyone.

Sorry,
Scott Meinzer
     
velodev
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:46 PM
 
I don't know why... but even with my cable modem I can't get it to refresh more than once.
     
Agasthya
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Jun 23, 2004, 08:49 PM
 
Originally posted by Dex13:
I love you, now all my buddies can get one

Don't love me. Love nforcer. I just host and test
     
nforcer
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Jun 23, 2004, 09:32 PM
 
Originally posted by Dex13:

More Updates - Tuesday 2:39 PM
Someone has hacked my gmail account ([email protected]) making it impossible for me to get into to send out codes to all of you. Everytime someone wins on the site it sends an email to that account, so i can send you a code. But i can't get into that email, if anyone else can figure out a method into the account that would be great, but until then i can't send out invites to anyone.

Sorry,
Scott Meinzer
Crap on a stick, we've had the app for about 5 days. Should have been more motivated to do something sooner

Thanks for the tip.
( Last edited by nforcer; Jun 24, 2004 at 06:05 AM. )
     
Jaey
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Jun 23, 2004, 10:39 PM
 
Son of a.... I got 1377.
     
CharlesS
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Jun 24, 2004, 03:10 AM
 
Originally posted by Agasthya:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/upadhya/www/gmail.zip

Made in REALbasuck but it works well. Opens 200 sockets to that site and if you have the bandwidth it will go nuts.
Careful... I could easily see an ISP suspending someone's account for doing something like this...

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Oisín
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Jun 24, 2004, 03:32 AM
 
Oops, err... wrong thread



     
nforcer
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Jun 24, 2004, 06:03 AM
 
Hey everyone, Scott just got his email account fixed
They are back in action.
     
Dex13  (op)
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Jun 24, 2004, 12:26 PM
 
Originally posted by nforcer:
They are back in action.
Their down again � or is it that they block your ip address if you send to many refresh demands to their server?
     
nforcer
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Jun 24, 2004, 04:36 PM
 
Originally posted by Dex13:
Their down again � or is it that they block your ip address if you send to many refresh demands to their server?
They appear to be up right now. Never had my IP blocked. Since the whole basis of the site is on refreshing a page, I don't see why they would.
     
Truepop
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Jun 25, 2004, 11:21 AM
 
They changed the system. now you are given a few sets of numbers and you have to refresh until they are all the same number.

I guess too many people where making and using tools like that 200 thing.
     
   
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