Hi Travis,
Making sure your reply reaches the list. there may be others who wondered
as I did.
anyone know of an example of what Travis means here?
I used google to search for years without needing an account, only
getting one as a way to manage files as outlined.
that, and for research, my second address, which I can no longer reach
directly because of Google's claim that only hackers turn off JavaScript.
Kare
On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
Honestly, I can't remember who wanted me to have the gmail address, but I do
remember it irritated me to no end. It may have been one (or more) of the
various private label rights softwares I've purchased over the years, or it
may even have been google itself, since everytime you connect to it (if it's
the default search engine in your browser), it always asks you to login, and
the stupid login screen kept getting in the way, and sometimes caused me to
loos my place on the web page, so I finally gave in, setup a google mail
account, then ignored it entirely. I have no idea if I ever got any email
to that account or not, and I don't even know what the password is to log
back into it if chrome ever forgets the password, but honestly I don't care,
because I have no intention of ever using it.
I have my own email addresses, and don't need another one just because some
stupid website wanted me to have it.
On 10/16/2021 9:09 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Travis,
I am curious. can you share examples of sites that require a gmail
account?
And yet do not need you to confirm anything by sending you an email to
that account?
Speaking personally, the basic html edition of gmail is profoundly needful
for me, especially as often things like pdf attachments get
automatically converted to html, and in lynx become plan text. Same for
word and docx files.
still, I am personally unaware of a site that requires the use of
gmail, the option to sign up with your gmail account, yes, but not an
actual mandate.
Do you mind sharing your experiences with this?
Karen
On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
> For what it's worth, when I clicked on that link, it brought me to the
> google page, and asked me if I was sure I wanted to turn on the html
> only (or whatever it was) feature of gmail. I have a gmail account
> only because some sites require it. I have never once actually checked
> said mail, and never plan to.
>
> But, it did work.
>
> On 10/16/2021 4:30 AM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > Sharing this, in case it helps others.
> > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:07 +0000
> > > > > > https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
> > Zachary Lee Andrews replied:
> >
> > > Am I missing something, the only thing I see in your message is a
> > gmail
> > > URL that doesn't work...
> > Right, gmail URLs are per-person. mail.google.com/mail/u/0 is the
> > mailbox of *your* primary logged-in google ID. For anyone else,
> > that
> > URL means 'the message with this hash key in *my* mailbox', which is
> > vanishingly unlikely to exist; and if it did, it wouldn't be the
> > same
> > message anyway.
> >
> > If you want to forward text out of a gmail message, you need to
> > forward
> > the text, not a gmail URL...
> >
> > > Bela<
> > PS: apologies to Zachary for mistakenly sending 1st copy of this to
> > him
> >
>
>
