Opening Of gmail.

well!! may be i missed the inugral offer to Gmail , but its been about 6 months (as far as i can remember) since Gmail opened . excepted for a limited people(some of which can be found here at antionline)the service has not opened for genral public yet , can some one of you kind people tell me when exactly is this gonna open , and what is the thing with the beta phase of google news . its been on the page for two years now and they still aren't finished testing the news search engine , can any one explai as of how is the testing actually done , i am a newbee so plz be genrous
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