As I said, I can't provide any additional details in such cases. Regarding reinstatement, I'm unfamiliar with Google's policies on reinstating accounts in such circumstances, but the folks who handle the support forum are. They can let you know what your options are.
- Dan On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Tim <str...@gmail.com> wrote: > How would one go about getting the account reinstated? I replied to Alan > who originally sent that the account has been disabled but have been unable > to get a reply. > > I'm sorry if traffic was suspicious but if it was from this - then it > should have stopped approximately two or three weeks ago. So I guess I'm not > sure why this was an issue right now - more than two weeks later? > > -Tim > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dan Morrill <morri...@google.com> wrote: > >> The user account you indicated was indeed disabled due to suspicious >> high-volume activity, indicative of an attempted denial-of-service attack or >> similar inappropriate activity. We do not provide any more detail than that >> in such cases. >> >> Presumably this was related to this work, although we have no way of >> knowing for certain: http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=158 While we don't >> necessarily have a problem with people accessing the Market in unusual ways, >> your traffic was excessive, suspicious, and in violation of the Market Terms >> of Service. >> >> Perhaps your traffic was accidental, but we have no way of distinguishing >> between an accident and an actual DoS attack. >> >> - Dan >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM, strazzere <str...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> It appears google does monitor and can/will disable accounts. >>> >>> For example - mine has been disabled. Why? No idea but I've gotten it >>> confirmed by google support. >>> >>> They said it was disabled due to "high volume and suspicious traffic" >>> - with not email notification or anything. Just turned off - and no >>> reply on how to get it turned back on. >>> >>> On Mar 7, 9:48 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: >>> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Stoyan Damov <stoyan.da...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:58 PM, strazzere <str...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >> Your interaction with the market is also logged with your android id >>> > >> -- which also seems to be linked to a gmail account you use on that >>> > >> device. >>> > >>> > >> So I'm assuming this could be tracked - and if google wanted to, >>> they >>> > >> could see. Hmmm 150+ users with the same android id? All commenting >>> > >> and install the same application? >>> > >>> > > That is, if Google cares. All I've seen is "oh, really? file a bug". >>> > >>> > And rightly so, because we can't keep track of issues brought up in a >>> > mailing list. >>> > If you see a bug, you're certainly welcome to bring it up in the >>> > mailing list, so that others may learn from your experience, but >>> > posting about it in this mailing list is no substitute for filing a >>> > bug. We can't assign a posting to an engineer. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > -Tim Strazzere > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
