Excess GMail invites? Script them away!
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Amazingly, people are still looking for free GMail invite spooler">ByteTest. Sending invite after invite to ginvites@xn0.org is not my idea of fun, but I still like the anonymizing effect of the spooler, and I wanted to help. So, I hacked together a clod of javascript to automate the process.
I can't figure out how to make this into a bookmarklet, though. I tried wrapping it in the standard bookmarklet code:
void(function(){ /*code goes here*/ }())
...and it would only send one invite, then stop without errors. If anyone can figure it out, please let me know! I'd like to present this as an easy-to-use bookmarklet.
I will delete on sight any comments asking for invites. Go wait in line at ByteTest.com/" title="Free GMail invite spooler">ByteTest. Sending invite after invite to ginvites@xn0.org is not my idea of fun, but I still like the anonymizing effect of the spooler, and I wanted to help. So, I hacked together a clod of javascript to automate the process.
I present here the base code, which works in Mozilla Firefox 1.5. If you remove all the line breaks, you can enter it the FireBug console while at the address https://mail.google.com/">https://mail.google.com/.
void(function(){ /*code goes here*/ }())
...and it would only send one invite, then stop without errors. If anyone can figure it out, please let me
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