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Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous

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On 25/10/2017 3:56 PM, Ned Latham wrote:
> Felix wrote:
>> Ned Latham wrote:
>>> The Rod Walloper wrote:
>>>> Ned Latham wrote
>>>>> The Rod Walloper wrote
>>>>>> Ned Latham wrote:
>>>>>>> The Rod Walloper wrote
>>>>>>>> Niska Hubot wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I run a business from home. There are several computers
>>>>>>>>> and 2 internet connections. Now almost every time I log
>>>>>>>>> into gmail, google scholar, google code et cetera, it
>>>>>>>>> thinks I am an impostor. For example if I go from a
>>>>>>>>> linux PC to Windows, that is enough difference for
>>>>>>>>> those f-wits. So I have to get recovery code sent to
>>>>>>>>> my phone. But this arvo my phone battery was zilch, so
>>>>>>>>> I select alternative option, to wit "what date did you
>>>>>>>>> create this account?" Who the fuck can remember that?
>>>>>>>> Some of us have enough of a clue that
>>>>>>>> we can check that trivially using the emails.
>>>>>>> Bit hard without access to them.
>>>>>> Only if you are actually stupid enough to have nothing but
>>>>>> webmail.
>>>>> Use your scone, Woddy. If you're going to keep local copies
>>>>> of your webmail, you might as well go the whole hog and use
>>>>> genuine email.
>>>> I do, fuckwit. And hordes get real radical and use their phone
>>>> or tablet too.
>>> So your comments were irrelevant.
>>>
>>> What a surprise *that* isn't.
>> wouldn't google still block access when logging in from an email
>> client on a computer when changing from one computer to another?
> I opened a gmail account years ago, then never used it. Too fucking
> cumbersome.
>
> So I'm not sure about this, but I think that you don't use an email
> client when you use gmail: it is itself a sorta email client.

yes, you just use a browser, but you can also use an email client (like 
Thunderbird) to get your gmail mail on your computer (as I do)

>
>> and the disadvantage would be if he replied on one pc then there'd
>> be no copy of the email on any of the others,
> Set your LAN up properly and you have no problem. There are two
> solutions:
> 1  have your email client running on just one machine, and run
>     it remotely when you're using a different machine;
> 2  keep all your emails on one machine and run whatever email
>     client(s) you wish to on whichever machine(s) you wish to,
>     accessing the emails via nfs.
> Setting up for the second is a tad laborious, but much more
> flexible. And nfs gives you heaps more than just email access.

but that's probably beyond the technical knowledge and skill of the 
average user

>
>>                                                whereas using webmail
>> all emails and replies are together and can be seen on all computers.
> Sure. If you can log on.


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Google login protection is getting ridiculous Niska Hubot <nospam@bitbucket.net> - 2017-10-23 15:11 +0800
  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 19:47 +1100
    Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-10-23 04:48 -0500
      Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 03:09 +1100
        Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-10-23 14:46 -0500
          Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 08:54 +1100
            Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-10-24 03:35 -0500
              Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-10-25 10:58 +1100
                Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-10-24 23:56 -0500
                Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-10-25 16:06 +1100
                Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-10-25 01:19 -0500
                Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-26 10:00 +1100
  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Max <max@val.morgan> - 2017-10-23 22:40 +1100
  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-10-23 22:07 +0000
  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-10-26 08:08 +0700
    Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-10-26 12:47 +1100
    Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-10-26 17:20 +1100
  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-11-16 18:46 +0700
    Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-11-20 06:32 +0800
      Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-11-21 08:46 +1100
        Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-11-21 06:08 +0800
          Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-11-21 10:28 +1100
            Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-11-22 05:59 +0800
    Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-01-05 20:29 +0000
      Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2018-01-06 09:21 +1100
      Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2018-01-06 14:58 +1100

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