Creating a Google Account
Hi everyone,
You wish to access our groups and sites.
Well then for our public groups and sites it should just be a matter of going to the web address and viewing them.
However to post to our groups or see our member sites, then we need some means to verify who you are first, before we let you do that.
The simplest and cheapest means for us to do that is to use the facilities set up by google.
The downside is you need to create a google account, well its not really a downside but it is something you will need to do.
To create the account
- You can create a google account associated with and existing email address
- to do this go to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount and follow the instructions
- or just do a google search for "create a google account"
- if you are worried about privacy do not enable web history
- If you are really worried about privacy avoid computers, you will find if you look into the internet companies all collect data, some just don't tell you. As a general rule don't put things on the internet that you do not want known.
- Or you can create a google account with a google email address
- to do this go to http://mail.google.com/mail/signup and follow the instructions
- or just do a google search for "create a google email account"
- creating a google email address has the advantage of not having to tell everyone that your email address just changed because you changed your internet company - I personally think this is pretty useful. You could also do this with a yahoo email address or a hotmail email address. In my opinion in terms of lack of advertising, google is best, then yahoo, then hotmail.