Google Groups was designed to represent the best alternative to help
customers of all the Google products by allowing them to communicate
with other users of the services or even with the company's officials.
Today, the search giant introduces a new topic created especially for
Gmail, the mail solution recently
released from the private beta program. The discussion entitled
Gmail Updates And Alerts helps users find information easier by reading
a simple thread where Google's employees will post messages
periodically.
"The purpose of this sub-group is to provide you with valuable
information regarding technical issues that Gmail may be experiencing.
Posts will be made by Gmail Alerts Manager, a Google employee, and will
have as accurate and up-to-date information as possible. We know how
important Gmail is to our users and want to ensure that you are fully
informed in the event of a problem," the Gmail Alerts Manager member
sustained in the introduction of the topic.
One interesting aspect remarked by Philipp Lenssen from Google
Blogoscoped is the first line from the message posted in the
introduction that said: "Hi Gmailers". The blogger quoted a paragraph
from Google's Permissions that forces users to avoid using this kind of
words or they might get sued.
"One of the conditions for all uses is that you can't mess around with
our marks. Only we get to do that. Don’t remove, distort or alter any
element of a Google Brand Feature. That includes modifying a Google
trademark, for example, through hyphenation, combination or
abbreviation, such as: Googliscious, Googlyoogly, GaGooglemania. Do not
shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of Google trademarks," the
search giant sustains.
