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"Apprentice contest still open..."
Posted by carlg on 10-07-04 at 05:12 PM
Not quite a spoiler, but...
For a task filmed but not yet aired: the contestants set up a marketing campaign for Google.com's new book searching tool.

Mosaic's campaign involved a cash sweepstakes giveaway ($10,000), the winner will be the final person whose email causes the 1 gigabyte Google gmail address strangerX@gmail.com to reach it's 1 gigabyte limit. The limit has not yet been reached! (I won't say whether or not that caused Mosaic to lose that task, you'll have to watch the episode!)

The sweepstakes is open until the episode airs, so whoever can fill up this email address before that air date wins!

Sadly, I can't play, since I have something to do with one of the companies involved. Have fun...

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"Is this true?"
Posted by Reba123 on 10-07-04 at 05:33 PM
I can't find any mention of this sweepstakes anywhere else on the internet. It can't be a great marketing campaign if you can't even find it on Google, the sponsor!

Jokes aside, I would need something to corroborate this information before sending personal info to a strange email account.

"Locking"
Posted by AyaK on 10-08-04 at 11:11 AM
LAST EDITED ON 10-08-04 AT 11:11 AM (EST)

It's possible that this is a real spoiler. It's also possible that some troll is trying to get names and addresses from real e-mail addresses to sell to spammers.

Since the idea of one of the teams trying to "fill a one-meg mailbox" seems so stupid in the task times allotted, I believe this to be the latter ... in other words, spam. I'm not deleting it in case I'm wrong. But I'm locking it.