Friday, December 07, 2007

My Gmail Account

I was shocked to discover yesterday that my Gmail Account had been disabled. I explored the Gmail Help section and discovered that they would disable an account if the user violated the Terms of Service. I knew I hadn't done that, but wasn't very hopeful that the issue would be resolved. It meant I had no access to my online documents, photos, contacts names, email addresses and telephone numbers. I was also locked out of my Blog and had no way of telling everyone that it was due to a Google Glitch. Anyway, alls well that ends well. My account has been restored. I'll paste their reply here below:

Hello,

Thank you for your report.

Gmail accounts may be disabled at any time due to violations of Gmail Terms of Use. Google reserves the right to suspend a Gmail Account or the entire Google Account if Gmail Terms of Use are violated.

Recently the Gmail team launched several features intended to detect and prevent breaches of our Terms of Use, such as spamming.As a result, a number of users who may have not been acting in breach of these terms were affected. The issue has since been resolved, and these users have had access to their accounts restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

To review Gmail's Terms of Use, please refer to http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html

1 comment:

Mags said...

Sorry this is off topic, but please consider passing this information on, to as many Christians as possible, and if possible post it on your blog, and encourage others to do the same :-

The Post Office (UK) have two sets of postage stamps on a Christian theme, one of the Madonna and Child, but are keeping it quiet, so that next year they can say that there is no demand for 'Christian/Christmas stamps'.

Apparently they are only selling them if people ask for them over the counter.

We are asked to encourage as many Christians as possible to ask for them. This information was given out at 'The Ark of the Covenant' -Coventry ........am dutifully passing this information on.