I have a G-Mail invite to spare if anyone's interested in trying an account. http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html Leave me a current email address and your name if you want it. I'll bump this thread when I get more.
Still waiting on mine - signed up some time ago. In the meantime, I got a 1 GB free email account at spymac.com.
I don't see what is so attractive about an email account where your private emails are scanned and read by a computer to determine your interests and then put ads based on it on your screen?
Meh, it's just a webmail account I can use for basic communication when I'm travelling/don't have access to my own mailservers. I don't really care if it scans my mundane messages about social arrangements/flight times/etc etc, nor will I ever use the 1GB of storage space, but I'd rather use this than Hotmail