In a frenzy reminiscent of the dot-com mania of the late 1990s, Web users are bidding for invitations to join Google's test e-mail service before the company begins giving them away enmassed. But those testing the service in its beta version are able to invite a small number friends to join, a loophole that has created a kind of an underground market on the Internet as people from around the world angle to secure the most desirable e-mail addresses.
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