hi thaths,
Thaths wrote:
On Jan 8, 2008 8:54 AM, B.L. Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thaths wrote:
By any chance, is cam.ac.uk serving email through Google Apps for your domain?
not quite sure if i understand this correctly. but i use thunderbird for
reading / sending eamil...
'Google Apps for your domain' is a service in which small and medium
sized businesses and some universities host their corporate / academic
email, groups, calendar, etc. on Google infrastructure/applications.
The UI (if you are using the web-based service) is the same as for
Gmail, Google calendar, etc.
nope. that would probably not be the case.
...thinking of it... i was not quite right about not using google
services before. i recently had to sign up to google spreadsheets as my
boat captain uses it to organise rowing outings...
When you signed up for google spreadsheets, did you sign up for a
gmail address? Or did you sign up using your cam.ac.uk address? When
you signed up for Google spreadsheets and logged in, did you click on
the checkbox that said 'remember me'? Were you logged into Google
spreadsheets when you saw the 'Recommendations for ....' on
news.google.com? Do you have the URL of the Google news page you were
viewing when you saw this text?
indeed you got that one, thanks. with google spreadsheet apparently the
'remember me' box is ticked by default. didn't look out the first time.
though i guess even if you are not useing the spreadsheet (e.g. days
later), one stays 'logged in' anyway for this ip address as long as one
does not specifically log out. is this correct? going to news.google.com
then 'officially' can identify the email address you have been signing
in to google spreadsheets, say two days ago (e.g. when you just closed
the browser which i guess most people would do). sounds nerdily logic,
doesn't it? interestingly news.google.co.uk does identify my email
address, too, but not .fr, .de, .it.
Bernhard, let us both be calm while we try and figure out why Google
news seemed to know your email address. Once we have figured out *why*
that happened, we can look at how you can log out of Google.
sure. maybe i am just paranoid, but for some reason i have the impresion
that google would aggregate (or at least collect) the data it gets of a
particular ip address whether i am signed in to one of their services or
not, or whether me or my girlfriend/brother/colleague/etc. is signed in
(maybe even more interesting). am i the only one believing this? it is
just beyond my control. i don't know and therefore i don't trust. at the
moment google just offers most of us so many really convenient services
'for free' (i.e. for our data) that we seem to stop wondering.
--bernhard
