Now you don't have to be "invited" to get a Gmail (free Google email) account...
I use my Gmail account quite a lot. Some of the benefits of it are...
- Over 2 Gigabytes of space! I even use it for storage space for files sometimes... (By temporary uploading files to an email, then downloading them later. Good for transferring files from one computer to another without needing a USB drive!)
- You can set things up so your email comes from anywhere... Eg. I can set it up so my email comes from my email at drice@sowpub.com

- Great spam filtering - very good if you are bombarded by spam!
Anyway, if you don't have one yet and you want a Gmail account, you can get one from here...
http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
Dien