Marko - Thanks for the suggestion. As you probably guessed, I've considered SMS many times, but I have always backed away from it because I don't trust Google to keep my phone # private. I can't have dozens of robo calls coming in to my cell phone, as happens with our land line phone. Opting for the "Do Not Call" features on land line hasn't really helped at all - everyone claims to be a charity, a political call, or a survey, or else they just call anyway, waiting for me to complain and then (eventually) get the calls stopped for a few weeks or a few months.
So - two questions for you, and these are serious questions: (1) is there something about the Google SMS system which causes Google to keep phone numbers confidential? and (2) given that the problem with the Google password recovery module was that they never sent me the promised link by email, is there something about SMS which would make Google more responsive? Another way of putting that is "why would Google respond to SMS when they don't respond to email?" My thought throughout this recent problem has been that Google is trying to push people very hard, to divulge their cell phone numbers. My guess is that there would be tremendous temptation to "monetize" those phone numbers - sell them to businesses. Do you think that's a possibility? Bill On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]>wrote: > Bill, it's time you enable the SMS account recovery option don't you think? > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/152124?hl=en > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:35 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Marko - >> >> I never did hear from the Google password recovery module. I had checked >> Spam several times. Like you, I thought for sure that I had written down >> the password incorrectly - but that wasn't the case. >> >> On the morning of 21 November, after typing in the same password >> unsuccessfully perhaps 30-40 times (yes, I was doing the same thing over >> and over, hoping for different results), the password worked. I immediately >> changed it, and the latest password works without problem. Could I have >> typed it in 30-40 times, always incorrectly, and then "accidentally" typed >> it in correctly? Nothing is impossible, but that seems unlikely. >> >> That sudden resolution doesn't make sense, but I'm very glad it finally >> worked out. It's unsettling that I never heard back from the Google >> password recovery module, and it's even more unsettling that there seems to >> be no way to contact Google itself. But I know that's the price we pay for >> free email. I feel very lucky that things finally worked out, for now. >> >> Bill >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Marko Vukovic >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:41 AM, billhansen >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Now I can't access Google using that password (I wrote it down as I >>>> created it, so I know I'm not typing it incorrectly) >>> >>> >>> Just because you wrote it down doesn't mean that you typed it correctly. >>> Perhaps you had Caps Lock on when you created the new one? >>> >>> -- >>> Marko >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Marko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
