Gmail change?

[Thorny]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:26:31 -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

>     I use gmail and IMAP it to my Thunderbird and it acts almost like
> any email provider with one real big problem. At some time it will pester
> you to death asking for your user name and password. These attacks were
> about once or twice a week and lasted for a couple of hours.
> 
Well Karl, I don't follow what question you are asking. I suppose you mean
that you have optioned your email client (TBird) for IMAP access to Gmail.
Under what conditions do you observe the situation about which you are
complaining? How is what you are talking about an "attack", authenticating
for access to a server is a normal process. How is this different from
"any email provider", do you mean different from POP3 access or something
else?

>     It occurs to me that it has been several weeks up to now since the
> latest attack here and I wonder if if a Google Engineer found the cause of
> the problem and fixed it? I am a investor in stocks and bonds and there is
> only one thing you can say about the Google business, it is well run and
> even today it pays a good dividend. The people working at Google are safe
> and can ride out the business down-turn fixing what they have :-)
> 
Once again, I don't understand your use of "attack". Additionally,
wouldn't it be better to ask Google if one of their engineers did
something rather than some non-related newsgroup? I'm sure it is a good
thing for you that you are getting a good dividend from your investments
but I don't see how it is related to whatever question that you are
asking.