betsyb said...

Oops sorry.  Shades of 'Does He Take Sugar?' - a radio programme on the
BBC network (R4 for those to whom this means something).  The programme
is a magazine for disabled people and their carers, and takes its name
from a question frequently asked of its (blind) presenter in days gone
by.

So, sorry Janet, I'd misunderstood and was treating you as though you
weren't here.  As you are here, however, have these hugs that I've been
keeping in reserve, and since you're probably not up to eating very much
right now a piece of virtual chocolate cake to put in the freezer until
you're ready for it.  Here, I've cut it into little chunks, so that you
can try a small bit at a time rather than get the whole lot out only to
find you're not as chipper as you thought you were.

Oh, and here are a whole shedload of get well wishes from mother and me.

{{{{{Janet}}}}}

When's convenience a nuisance.
She was posting, using her Yahoo account (and astraweb) and Mozilla, and her
computer "at home", not in hospital.
Now she wants to use Google to read and post, from the hospital.
Both Google and Yahoo have a setting " Remember me on this computer."
(so does Mozilla)
If she checked that off, previously, in Yahoo, at some point, that's what's
causing the problem.
Cookies are set at their end and on the user's computer.

I'm just guessing that it's the Yahoo setting (tied to her Mozilla cookies
and/or settings).
There's a place here to contact Yahoo about sign in.
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/cookies/details.html

The other possible is that she's using a different computer with same problem
or it's (Mozilla) settings are set to "reject all cookies" or in the process
of trying to correct this problem, whether the same or different computer, she
or someone changed the setting to "reject all cookies" and now she can't log
in to Google.(so can only read).

So the answer, to me, is for her to contact Yahoo and explain the situation.
That's she's in hospital and needs to remove " Remember me on this computer.".
Once she's received a "confirm" from Yahoo, clear out all her Mozilla
"cookies" and cookie settings (in Mozilla) and don't visit any webpages,
(Penny's is probably okay), until... start fresh, with the Mozilla cookie
settings.
Then try posting, with her Yahoo, through Google. It if works, then the Google
and Yahoo cookies will get reset and she'll be okay.

So I think the problem's her Yahoo and Mozilla cookies.

So if someone wants to access newsgroups with a yahoo account, it's best to
have 2 yahoo accounts (emails), one to use on the same computer (whether home
or in hospital) and a different yahoo email/account to use from a remote place
(different computer, at library, web cafe, hospital, hotel etc).
J