Originally posted by psyaeger:

Google has yet to fully open Gmail up to the entire public. One must either receive an invitation or be lucky enough to see the invitation on their home search page (randomly selected I believe).
I have about 50 Gmail invitations. It's free and I'm getting nothing for offering them. I'm not affiliated with google in any way (other than that I use their services a lot). If you would like an electronic invitation allowing you to open your own gmail account, reply here with any email address and I'll send the invitation there as long as they last. You can use a junk email address as you probably don't want to give out a private one of course.