[gentoo-user] [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

[walt]

Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered
that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer)
email servers.

This puzzled me (still does) because it seems to violate google's basic
business model, which is based on advertising revenue.  (I never see an
advertisement when sending/reading email via smtp/imap, obviously.)

Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to
their email servers.  Just in the last day or two, literally.

I can understand the delay for sending email (spammers) but why the
same delay for reading email?

(My conspiracy theory has been suppressed to allow room for your own
conspiracy theory ;)