Using invites for good and not evil

Back in May, Christina blogged the craziness over Gmail invites, people selling them on eBay and all. Well, somebody's come up with a better idea - donate them to troops in Iraq who need to keep in touch with folks here. Gmail4Troops makes the point that free, fast, and generous-in-disk email service is a big help compared to sad old Yahoo!Mail or Hotmail. There is a clearinghouse site for invites and those asking for them, which hopefully the unscrupulous will not abuse. I'm not big on meaningless "Support Our Troops" gestures (I wish we had shown our support for them in the first place by not sending them to fight this war), so it's good to find something practical to do to help out.