Saturday 11 February 2006 — This is over 18 years old. Be careful.
Now that I’m using Django, I’ve been reading the Django users mailing list. Google Groups is great (even though it is still in Beta, whatever that means after five years). But I can’t figure out how to subscribe to the list with anything other than my Gmail account. I don’t want to use my Gmail account, it isn’t the email address I want advertised to the world. Does anyone know how to break out of Google’s increasingly tight grasp?
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Gmail does let you set a new email address on a gmail account; it's possible that that new address is the one that appears to the world if you post with Google Groups.
The problem is if you're logged in to gmail, you have to log out and log in with the other account to view the groups.
Hope this helps.
Does that do it?
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12346&topic=251
I use a non-Gmail account for both Orkut and Google Groups, and it is indeed annoying that they make you log out of Gmail each time.
-K
I have a Gmail account and an older account that I use for posting through Google Groups, made for the web service API beta test of some years ago (when Gmail didn't exist). When I check Gmail before visiting Google Groups I have to log in as the other account before posting; I've also noticed options are separate for each account.
I think this is a normal kind of integration ("Your browser is accessing all Google services through this account until you log in differently"), easy to understand but not too smart; a way to link accounts in some Google configuration to automatically use account A for Gmail and account B for Groups would save some logins but erode user privacy.
How come the Firefox addon Gmail Manager hasn't been mentioned yet?
"This is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets."
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