Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: shared email accounts for Coho business

[Chris Hansen (itschrishansen]

Hi Muriel
We use a mosaic-based system which allows for shared group emails so don’t
have the gmail issue
However the zoom one I think many of us will share and it’s pretty
mind-numbingly frustrating
Only way we’ve managed is to get together with each individual and their
device (can be virtually arranged) and got authorization that way
I direct a business with about 8 zoom accounts and 20-30 people who use
them all over the world. It’s not unusual to get a panicked message late at
night, while hiking through the woods or at other times…
Looking forward to what others have to say about this!


On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 8:08 PM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

> Some of our committees have created gmail accounts that are shared among
> committee members, but we've just heard that Google is about to make it
> near-impossible to share gmail accounts by requiring 2-factor
> authentication. I think Yahoo now requires a phone number for a new account
> -- I don't know if they're using it to authenticate or will do that in the
> future.
>
> The committee emails are one possible problem. The other actual concern is
> access to our community's paid Zoom account that is used for community
> governance, ie meetings. People are sometimes having trouble logging in to
> start their scheduled meeting because Zoom is requiring them to enter a
> verification code that is sent to a recovery email. The recovery email is a
> gmail account, which has as its backup a Yahoo account that I monitor
> pretty often. Lately Google has notified this Yahoo account about what it
> sees as suspicious attempts to log in -- when someone needed to log into
> Zoom, Zoom sent a verification code to the gmail account, and they couldn't
> get in to the gmail account. What a circus.
>
> TL:DR - how are your communities handling this, if you have team-wide gmail
> accounts or a community Zoom account that is supposed to be available to
> everyone who does governance tasks?
>
> A related question is, is there a reliable free email service that does not
> require a phone number?
>
> I will appreciate any suggestions!
>
>    Muriel at Shadowlake Village
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