"George Weston"  wrote:
> "Jose de las Heras"  wrote in message 
> news:7kmg05F3a3gn7U1@mid.individual.net...
> >
> > "Peter McCormack"  wrote in message 
> > news:c4ent4v4a5gj.13p2x6zqdcyjd.dlg@40tude.net...
> >> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:38 +0000, SteveShark wrote:
> >>
> >> -------------------8><
> >>> If anyone wants to get hold of me, the best address to use is:
> >>>
> >>> steve(FULLSTOP)cobham(AT)gmail(FULLSTOP)com
> >>
> >> Idle curiosity, Steve - how have you managed to get a gmail.com
> > > address? 
> >> UK
> >> registrants tend to get offered a aaa@googlemail.com one. The only
> > > reason 
> >> I
> >> can now register gmail ones is that Internet access from work is
> > > through 
> >> a
> >> US gateway.
> >
> >
> > I'm not Steve...
> >
> > (Hi Steve! moving to France sounds... yummy and slurpy... -I'm
> > hungry- all 
> > the best!)
> >
> > but is there a difference between googlemail and gmail? I assumed
> > gmail 
> > gets translated as googlemail and treated as one and the same. I
> > have a 
> > gmail account... you can email me xxxx@googlemail.com or
> > xxxx@gmail.com, 
> > both arrive to the destination fine...
> >
> > Jose
> > -- 
> > www.mcnach.com
> >
> > Richt Hoat Chillis:
> > http://www.myspace.com/rhcpscot  - Bass: OLP MM2
> > http://www.freakmusic.co.uk/scotland/bands/the_richt_hoat_chillis
> >
> > www.myspace.com/purplenoise68
> 
> I'm pretty sure that gmail addresses were the original early-adopter 
> "invitation only" ones - as were the googlemail ones at first, before
> they 
> opened up to all and sundry.
> ICBW...
> 
> George

That's how I remember it.
It all seems so long ago now...

Steve.