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(From Technews.com)
Byline: Mike Musgrove
If you want a Gmail account, the new e-mail service from Google Inc., you'd better be ready to pony up or at least have something to offer -- some are willing to swap kung-fu lessons, medical advice or, say, an autographed picture of a master yodeler.
Years after the rush to snatch up prime "dot-com" addresses, the latest Internet land-grab is on. This one started in April, when Google surprised the Web-connected world by announcing it is getting into the free e-mail business, with a service it calls Gmail.
For something that will eventually cost nothing -- Google has not announced when the service will be available to the public -- people are willing to trade all sorts of things for the right to snag a choice e-mail identity. At one Web site that connects the Gmail haves with the have-nots, a man is offering to…