Hi Jean I registered for a googlemail account yesterday, since I couldn't find any way to get a gmail one. According to a message I found in the Help section just now, which address I'm offered depends on where my IP address appears to be geographically located. According to another help article only googlemail suffixes have been issued in the UK & Germany since October 2005, due to some ongoing trademark dispute. After seeing your message I tried sending messages to the new account with both "googlemail.com" and "gmail.com" suffixes and you're right, both arrive OK, which is useful to know, thanks! Unfortunately since I have to send from a googlemail address, most replies are still going to be to the googlemail version. Regards, John - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:43:58 +0100 From: Jean McCarthy <jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] A 'Permanent' Email Address for FH To: computers@rootsweb.com > > Hi John, > > What you say about Google mail in the UK was true. However, > a couple of months ago it was changed and we can now use > either "@googlemail.com" or "@gmail.com". I have been using > both successfully. Hope this helps. > > Jean McCarthy nee Moore

Good Morning All Googlemail and Google Apps and the coming Cloud Computing all mean that by default, YOUR DATA is no longer under YOUR control. I know the promises ... but I've been using computers since the 1960's and I have heard them all before ... Here's a piece just issued by a computer journalists / guru "Uncle ReBoot" ... worth a moment to reflect! Yours aye Ike Dawson ========== Copied from Uncle ReBoot's newletter. It's Eleven O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your Data Is? > >By letting the digital cat out of the bag, >Amazon has made lots of people think about how >they're risking their data by storing it online or on proprietary gadgets. > >If you store any data online, and you haven't >thought this over, it's time you did. > >More and more people are sleepwalking into >handing control of their precious data to other people. > >Don't be one of them. > >If you use an online e-mail service such as >Google Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, or Yahoo! >Mail, you're getting freedom and convenience—but >you don't control your e-mail. > >Most people would go ballistic if the Post >Office was opening up their mail, reading its contents, and stuffing in ads. > >But when the e-mail providers do just that with >messages, it's somehow fine—because the service is free. > >If you don't think this is fine, don't use one of these services. > >And even if you do think it's fine, make copies >of any messages you wouldn't want to lose. Copy >them to your PC or to a USB key drive—something you control. > >In the same way, if you create documents online >using a service like Google Docs, for heaven's sake keep copies offline too. > >(You can even—gasp!—print them out. Paper's a >terrific storage technology for any text-based >documents. Lasts for hundreds of years with just >a little care, and you don't need any special >kit to read it—just eyes. Or a scanner if you >want to pump it back into a computer.) > Copy ends ========= On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 01:56 +0100, John Evans (fhml) wrote: > Hi Jean > > I registered for a googlemail account yesterday, since I > couldn't find any way to get a gmail one. According to a > message I found in the Help section just now, which > address I'm offered depends on where my IP address > appears to be geographically located. According to > another help article only googlemail suffixes have been > issued in the UK & Germany since October 2005, due > to some ongoing trademark dispute. > > After seeing your message I tried sending messages to > the new account with both "googlemail.com" and "gmail.com" > suffixes and you're right, both arrive OK, which is useful to > know, thanks! Unfortunately since I have to send from a > googlemail address, most replies are still going to be to > the googlemail version. > > > Regards, John > > > - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:43:58 +0100 > From: Jean McCarthy <jeanmccarthy36@googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] A 'Permanent' Email Address for FH > To: computers@rootsweb.com > > > > Hi John, > > > > What you say about Google mail in the UK was true. However, > > a couple of months ago it was changed and we can now use > > either "@googlemail.com" or "@gmail.com". I have been using > > both successfully. Hope this helps. > > > > Jean McCarthy nee Moore > > > > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message