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Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous

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"Ned Latham" <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> wrote in message 
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> 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.

For stupid people, maybe.

> So I'm not sure about this,

That’s obvious.

> but I think that you don't use an email client when you use gmail:

Corse you can if you want to.

> it is itself a sorta email client.

Not if you don’t want to use it like that.

>> 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.

Nothing whatever to do with the LAN setup.

> There are two solutions:

There are in fact more than 2.

> 1  have your email client running on just one machine, and
>     run it remotely when you're using a different machine;

Havent need to do it like that for a fucking long time now.

> 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.

Stupid way to do things.

> Setting up for the second is a tad laborious, but much more
> flexible. And nfs gives you heaps more than just email access.

The real way do to it is to setup the email clients properly and have
it all work fine whichever one you choose to use at a particular time.

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

> Sure. If you can log on.

And its completely trivial to ensure that you always can. 

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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
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  Re: Google login protection is getting ridiculous Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-10-26 08:08 +0700
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    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
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