Checking the profile apparently doesn't help: "click the user's name you'll be taken to a full listing of that user's posts (with the spam messages delightfully interspersed)." http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
Although that was a while ago. Maybe there have been improvements in the situation. On Jan 28, 9:36 am, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > Its difficult to tell...unless you, you know, hit "view original" and see if > it came from google servers or not. > > Or click the user's name and see if their profile is full of spam or full of > legit posts. > > Or, you know, apply some basic analytical thought to it. (I think we're > dealing with another side of a common android problem - if you were good > enough to do it you'd already work at google. So the googs are super > overworked and the quality suffers -well- below the worst that outside > contributors would provide. In this case, it results in moderation dumps > that include spam, random bans without feedback or recourse - ask Al Sutton > about that, but not on this list cuz he won't see it - and so forth..) > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Its easier to just create another google account to post from. You > > need at least 2 google accounts anyway, since you can't download your > > own apps... > > > On Jan 27, 3:10 am, String <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah, the same thing happened to me a couple of months ago and it was > > > a pain. If you send an email to the group owner (there's a link to do > > > so on the group's web page) explaining the situation they'll probably > > > reinstate you - at least that worked for me. > > > > String > > > > On Jan 27, 6:33 am, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The ban could be due to a spammer pretending to be you. I've seen that > > > > happen in Google Groups before. > > > > > On Jan 22, 2:12 pm, guich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After posting about 50 messages in the Android Developers, i got the > > > > > message: "you were BANNED from this group". Is this a kind of joke? > > > > > How can they do this without even telling you what you did wrong? Can > > > > > someone contact the administrator of the group and ask him to allow > > me > > > > > back? I'm doing a very important project in Android and its a pain > > > > > that this occured. > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > guich > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
