[Reader-list] Agent Gmail

[Monica Mody]

Gmail invites are a bit like Agent Smith, na? Much as you try to
eliminate them, hardier varieties spring up.

And what a clever dispersal strategy. Who can humanly resist the
exclusivity of an "invitation"? You have to beg/borrow/steal for one,
and pass it on, and accept if you get one.

Soon, then, one can foresee a tyrannous reign of gmail accounts – each
one spawning a dozen more – and internet human-users helplessly,
recklessly opening more and more gmail accounts, sending out more and
more SOS invitations, just to keep their inboxes looking non-messy and
invite-free…