[Lcabid] My Google email for document sharing

[Russell Stuart]

lOn Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:23 +1000, Daniel Devine wrote:
> So if you made a Google account which was registered to your Yahoo
> account could you use your Yahoo address as a descriptor of a Google
> account? Is the latter what you have done there with your stuart.id.au
> account or do you have your domain MX pointing to Google apps? (as I
> do).

It is a typical registration process.  You sign up using an email
address.  Google sends a confirmation URL to that email address to
verify you own it.  You click on the URL, click confirm/cancel, are you
done.  They would have to specifically add code to ban a Yahoo or any
other email address.  I don't have a Yahoo address, but I doubt they
would do that.

> Sorry it's off topic, but just interested in clarifying what works.

I don't think it is off-topic, considering we are planning to use google
docs.

By the by, you can sign up for Microsoft Passport accounts in the same
way, thus allowing you to chat to people using MSN (or whatever they
call it now) from your Linux box, using a normal email address.  I
mention this because some people thing you need a Microsoft Email
(HotMail) account to use Microsoft's services.  Not so.  Maybe Microsoft
provides similar services to google?

In fact I am struggling to think of anything that forces you to use a
particular email providers account.  Why would they?  They make their
money by throwing ads at you.