[Lcabid] My Google email for document sharing

[Daniel Devine]

I have never really thought about it that much - though I always use my
Yahoo account in MSN Messenger.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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