[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-23 Thread vrypan
Wrapping this threat up... - Ikai (from Google Support), obviously sent me a warning email that my service was used by spammers and that I should contact him, or he would have to disable the application. - Unfortunately, the email Ikai sent included some of the (spammy) short links as an example,

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-23 Thread Jeff Schwartz
Glad to hear it, vrypan. Good luck with your application. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:28 AM, vrypan vry...@gmail.com wrote: Wrapping this threat up... - Ikai (from Google Support), obviously sent me a warning email that my service was used by spammers and that I should contact him, or he

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Schwartz
Hi Respectfully, I don't really think it is nor should it be the responsibility of the support team. It should be, I believe, the responsibility of every AppEngine developer to ensure that their application adheres to the TOS because that is what we agreed to out of choice when we signed up.

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-21 Thread A. Stevko
Yeah, I was wondering how the goo.gl service got around the same TOS issue. Is there a way to verify the links via gmail (besides sending it in an email to yourself)? On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Jeff Schwartz jefftschwa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Respectfully, I don't really think it is nor

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-21 Thread Darien Caldwell
I don't think you understood what he was saying. Google support sent him an email about their impending takedown with spam links in the body of the email, resulting in the official Google email being caught in spam filters and not being delivered. That definitely *is* something the support team

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Schwartz
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Darien Caldwell darien.caldw...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think you understood what he was saying. Google support sent him an email about their impending takedown with spam links in the body of the email, resulting in the official Google email being caught in

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
Hi, I sent you an email a week requesting a response. Please check your inbox for emails from me addressed to the billing administrator of your application (vrypan@). Because you didn't respond, I was forced to disable your application. Your application is in violation of our terms of service

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread Joshua Smith
Thanks for posting this to the list. His story was disconcerting, and it's good to hear that he didn't respond to your emails. -Joshua On Dec 20, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) wrote: Hi, I sent you an email a week requesting a response. Please check your inbox for emails from me

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread Maxim Veksler
+1 On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Joshua Smith joshuaesm...@charter.netwrote: Thanks for posting this to the list. His story was disconcerting, and it's good to hear that he didn't respond to your emails. -Joshua On Dec 20, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) wrote: Hi, I sent you

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
I'm working with him off-list to resolve the issue. In general, it's important to remember that as application developers, you are responsible for the content that is posted to your application. If objectionable content is reported that violates the terms of service, someone from our team will

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread nickmilon
False alarm then. +1 IKai for cleaning the mess although I was sure it was something like this. On Dec 20, 11:08 pm, Ikai Lan (Google) ikai.l+gro...@google.com wrote: I'm working with him off-list to resolve the issue. In general, it's important to remember that as application developers, you

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-20 Thread vrypan
OK, mystery solved. Ikai's emails contained the links that were used by spammers, and GMail treated them as... spam :-) This is something that the support team might have in mind for the future... P. On Dec 21, 7:53 am, vrypan vry...@gmail.com wrote: Ikai, thanks for stepping in, but I still

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-19 Thread ajaxer
the most attractive feature of google's appengine is free to start. but when your project becomes large, you may found a better platform to deploy your project. i don't think google appengine can be used for large projects because there are so many dependencies on the app engine platform.

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-19 Thread Philip
There is no way that the app was disabled because Google fears competition. I'm currently developing a google news like service on app engine and I got access to the matcher api and prediction api without any problems even though I have told explicitly that I am doing this. I also got always help

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-19 Thread Jorge Guberte
If that's the case, then the app i'm developing will be shut for sure, because it extends the Google Contacts platform, making use of the API Google provides. Makes no sense, right? 2010/12/19 Philip philip.mates...@driggle.com There is no way that the app was disabled because Google fears

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread Norlesh
That would be very disconcerting (what area doesn't Google have a competing interest in). I hope there is a better explanation. Shane On Dec 18, 6:56 pm, Nickolas Daskalou n...@daskalou.com wrote: It may have been disabled because it competes with Google's URL   shortening offering

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread ajaxer
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Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread supercobra
I would be surprise it Google shut you down because of a competing factor. Let's see what they say. Just curious, did you enable billing on your app? -- superco...@gmail.com http://supercobrablogger.blogspot.com/ On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM, ajaxer calid...@gmail.com wrote: badly

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread Jeff Schwartz
+1 On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM, supercobra superco...@gmail.com wrote: I would be surprise it Google shut you down because of a competing factor. Let's see what they say. Just curious, did you enable billing on your app? -- superco...@gmail.com http://supercobrablogger.blogspot.com/

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread vrypan
I'm sure this has nothing to do with Google having a competing service. (I wish it did! :-) Yes, billing was enabled, and I've been paying for more than a year (or maybe two). P. On Dec 18, 3:16 pm, supercobra superco...@gmail.com wrote: I would be surprise it Google shut you down because of a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread Jeff Schwartz
I'm not saying it did but could your app be violating Google's TOS? On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:30 AM, vrypan vry...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure this has nothing to do with Google having a competing service. (I wish it did! :-) Yes, billing was enabled, and I've been paying for more than a year

Re: [google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread Matt H
Why no warning though? :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

[google-appengine] Re: my app has been disabled

2010-12-18 Thread vrypan
Jeff, I don't think so. But in any case, a warning that something is wrong, would be nice. I'm a legit user, my app was not intended to do anything that violates the TOS. It has been working for more than 2 years. To be honest, it's a project I've almost abandoned. I just feel bad for the users