Re: reaching google in basic html with lynx.

Hi Travis,
I am curious.  can you share examples of sites that require a gmail 
account?
And yet do not need you to confirm anything by sending you an email to 
that account?
Speaking personally, the basic html edition of gmail is profoundly needful 
for me, especially as  often things like pdf attachments get 
automatically converted to html, and in lynx become plan text.  Same for 
word and docx files.
still, I am  personally   unaware of a site that requires the use of 
gmail, the option to sign up with your gmail account, yes, but not an 
actual mandate.
Do you mind sharing your experiences with this?
Karen



On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:

> For what it's worth, when I clicked on that link, it brought me to the google 
> page, and asked me if I was sure I wanted to turn on the html only (or 
> whatever it was) feature of gmail.  I have a gmail account only because some 
> sites require it.  I have never once actually checked said mail, and never 
> plan to.
>
> But, it did work.
>
> On 10/16/2021 4:30 AM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
>> >  On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> > >  Sharing this, in case it helps others.
>> > > 
>> > >  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > >  Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:07 +0000
>> > > 
>> > >  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
>>  Zachary Lee Andrews replied:
>> 
>> >  Am I missing something, the only thing I see in your message is a gmail
>> >  URL that doesn't work...
>>  Right, gmail URLs are per-person.  mail.google.com/mail/u/0 is the
>>  mailbox of *your* primary logged-in google ID.  For anyone else, that
>>  URL means 'the message with this hash key in *my* mailbox', which is
>>  vanishingly unlikely to exist; and if it did, it wouldn't be the same
>>  message anyway.
>>
>>  If you want to forward text out of a gmail message, you need to forward
>>  the text, not a gmail URL...
>> 
>> >  Bela<
>>  PS: apologies to Zachary for mistakenly sending 1st copy of this to him
>> 
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