Locked out of Gmail? I think I know the reason...

There've been some interesting times with our Gmail accounts recently:

First Bianca's Google Chromebook was rendered useless by her losing access on all sorts of flimsy explanations, then Gmail refused to recognise me on my old main PC - too many redirects.

What Google perhaps hasn't realised - yet - is that we got a whole new digital communications system in Oz now, it's called the NBN (National Broadband Network) and with it we 'lost' our age-old analog land-line telephone number 02-65540639! And there was no way of appraising Google of the change to an IP-based home phone number, nor of the fact that its 'origin/location' would change daily (?), outside our control. And once I had forgotten my password, or tried to guess at it too many times, I became irretrievably suspect to the G. crowd...

So Gmail can't verify my existence as one of its first beta testers, signed up on May 1, 2004! And 11,000+ e-mails later, my accounts has been deemed 'unverifiable'!

At least my mobile remembers my password, and I can receive and send e-mails from it, both on Gmail and as carioca[at]internode.on.net. Ah well...

Comments from others similarly afflicted most welcome. Google, anyone?