2008/11/28 <staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk&gt;: It appears to be an indication of when the last activity of that account happened. It lets you know if you are logged onto the account from another IP, which could be a useful indicator that someone else has got your account details. I used Horde webmail for a while - whenever I logged in, it told me when my last login was, and what IP it was from. I liked that, because it gave me the chance to spot any anomalies. The GMail thing looks to be a similar thing to me, albeit less obvious. Fair question, but have they made *any* of the information they have on you secure? How do they store your password? Plain text? Encrypted? Hashed? Salted & hashed? (I've had arguments with PayPal and the Student Loans Company about this, because they limit the password length, and I was worried that they might not hash my password. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, they wouldn't tell me one way or the other.) What about the web server access logs? Are they secure? Or the contents of the e-mails? Personally, I'd be more concerned about whether the passwords, e-mails etc are secure. Russ