[OpenID] Google Groups for your domain

[Allen Tom]

You can register for a Google account using an email address as your Google
Account identifier.

And you can log into a Google Group using your Google Account.

And if your forget your Google Account password, you can reset it by proving
ownership of your email address.

Since resetting your password is the same thing as logging in, you can
already login by proving ownership of your email address.

So therefore, Google Groups could streamline their UX by letting users prove
ownership of their email address via OpenID, assuming that the user's email
provider has an OpenID interface.

Allen


On 12/9/09 7:06 PM, "Dick Hardt" <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would be really cool if your email *was* your OpenID! ;-)
> 
> On 2009-12-09, at 7:00 PM, Allen Tom wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to subscribe to the group using OpenID? That would be
>> awesome.
>> 
>> Allen
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/8/09 9:47 PM, "Nat Sakimura" <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> *5!
>>> 
>>> (Sorry for lowering the S/N ratio...)
>>> 
>>> (2009/12/09 14:36), Chris Messina wrote:
>>>> +10!
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone 2G
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 21:19, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Just saw 
>>>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/join-this-group-google-groups-joins
>>>>> .h
>>>>> tml 
>>>>> 
>>>>> and am really excited!  It looks like Google Groups are now supported
>>>>> as a part of Google Apps which means that we could have our mailing
>>>>> lists still hosted on lists.openid.net, but powered by Google Groups!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Google Groups provide the ability to interact with a mailing list both
>>>>> via email and a web interface, making mailing lists much more
>>>>> approachable.  They also have great search built in and much easier
>>>>> moderation and spam control tools.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm going to ask the Google folks if they can set us up with a Google
>>>>> Apps account and see what's involved in converting over and importing
>>>>> our mailing lists.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --David
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