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Googler here, feel free to email me at what's listed on my profile. Please make sure to include the following information: - Domain - Your Domain Admin's Email

Googler here, feel free to email me at what's listed on my profile. Please make sure to include the following information: - Domain - Your Domain Admin's Email - Any Google contacts that you're supposed to have I'll do my best to have one of the Workspace agents reach out. I work closely with them, so should be pretty easy. :+1: Generally, I've seen issue like this where a bad Apps Extension is added or various other external, but generraly preventable things happen.

austhrow743 6y ago
The email section of your profile is only between you and ycombinator. You need to put it in the about section if you want other users to be able to see it.
- mkl 6y ago
  And both links in said profile are 404s, in case you thought there was a way to contact you from there.
  - qmarchi 6y ago
    I stopped using Keybase after they got into the whole crypto thing, never ended up updating my profile.
- qmarchi 6y ago
  Ah, got me there. I've gone ahead and updated it with the relevant info!
  - kwanbix 6y ago
    I would "encode" it as abc at my domain which is google.com or something not to get your email grabbed by bots.
    - jetti 6y ago
      At this point that is such a common tactic that I would imagine many bots already account for that.
      - qmarchi 6y ago
        The particular address is filtered to a sub-inbox, so I don't generally see emails there unless I'm looking for them.
    - asymptosis 6y ago
      Base64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.
      - ganafagol 6y ago
        Because an email address scraping bot that can handle "foo at bar dot com" won't ever figure out what base64 is? Srsly?
        asymptosis 6y ago
        When did I say that? Maybe someday address scraping bots will learn base64. Maybe it will be at about the same time you learn to read.
        ganafagol 6y ago
        No need to be insulting. I replied to your claim that base64 should be preferred over "foo at bar dot com" since it would be "unlikely to be automatically checked by bots". I find that claim unlikely since a scraper that is adjusted to handle the former will easily be adapted to the latter and likely already is today. I'm happy to hear a counterargument to that position, but please don't include an insult.
        6y ago
ameyv 6y ago
Thank you. Will reach out to you.
- koheripbal 6y ago
  Please update this thread when you get an explanation. GSUITE banning us would put us out of business, and I worry about this more than I should have to.
cosmotic 6y ago
Although it's nice of you to help out, one should not have to go to the length of reporting a problem on hackernews to get google to respond.
- koheripbal 6y ago
  Even if OP's company misbehaved, the nuclear option of immediate and complete shutdown is way way too drastic for a CORPORATE account. This can literally kill the company outright. We are a GSUITE company, and these stories give me nightmares. If one of my employees violated the ToS, even repeatedly, I expect to be told "Get off our system. We're giving you x days to move elsewhere, and have restricted <functions> until such time". An immediate and total shutdown with literally NO response from Support is so drastic that it would trigger a lawsuit if it were any other company. The only reason it doesn't in these cases is because it's David vs Goliath, and the victim company is already too dead and broke to sue. Hopefully some lawyers will file a class action against Google - I have a Google My Business account that was suspended without cause (no abuse) with zero response from support.
  - mike_d 6y ago
    > I expect to be told ... Which is exactly what Google does. At $dayjob we get warnings from Google all the time about users misbehaving. Remember you are hearing one side of the story here. Innocent people and the people worthy of banning for legitimate reasons will both proclaim innocence until the end of days.
    - koheripbal 6y ago
      It would be great to hear the other side of this story. But until we do, as a business owner, I still see this as a huge risk. ...because I've also had things banned from Google (not the entire gsuite account thank god), and support has no ability to help. So I'm not at all going to assume that they deserved this ban.
      - Gibbon1 6y ago
ameyv 6y ago
Hi, Thank you. Sending you email on bio you mentioned with details.

austhrow743 6y ago

The email section of your profile is only between you and ycombinator. You need to put it in the about section if you want other users to be able to see it.

mkl 6y ago
And both links in said profile are 404s, in case you thought there was a way to contact you from there.
- qmarchi 6y ago
  I stopped using Keybase after they got into the whole crypto thing, never ended up updating my profile.
qmarchi 6y ago
Ah, got me there. I've gone ahead and updated it with the relevant info!
- kwanbix 6y ago
  I would "encode" it as abc at my domain which is google.com or something not to get your email grabbed by bots.
  - jetti 6y ago
    At this point that is such a common tactic that I would imagine many bots already account for that.
    - qmarchi 6y ago
      The particular address is filtered to a sub-inbox, so I don't generally see emails there unless I'm looking for them.
  - asymptosis 6y ago
    Base64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.
    - ganafagol 6y ago
      Because an email address scraping bot that can handle "foo at bar dot com" won't ever figure out what base64 is? Srsly?
      - asymptosis 6y ago
        When did I say that? Maybe someday address scraping bots will learn base64. Maybe it will be at about the same time you learn to read.
        ganafagol 6y ago
        No need to be insulting. I replied to your claim that base64 should be preferred over "foo at bar dot com" since it would be "unlikely to be automatically checked by bots". I find that claim unlikely since a scraper that is adjusted to handle the former will easily be adapted to the latter and likely already is today. I'm happy to hear a counterargument to that position, but please don't include an insult.
        6y ago

ameyv 6y ago

Thank you. Will reach out to you.

koheripbal 6y ago
Please update this thread when you get an explanation. GSUITE banning us would put us out of business, and I worry about this more than I should have to.

cosmotic 6y ago

Although it's nice of you to help out, one should not have to go to the length of reporting a problem on hackernews to get google to respond.

koheripbal 6y ago
Even if OP's company misbehaved, the nuclear option of immediate and complete shutdown is way way too drastic for a CORPORATE account. This can literally kill the company outright. We are a GSUITE company, and these stories give me nightmares. If one of my employees violated the ToS, even repeatedly, I expect to be told "Get off our system. We're giving you x days to move elsewhere, and have restricted <functions> until such time". An immediate and total shutdown with literally NO response from Support is so drastic that it would trigger a lawsuit if it were any other company. The only reason it doesn't in these cases is because it's David vs Goliath, and the victim company is already too dead and broke to sue. Hopefully some lawyers will file a class action against Google - I have a Google My Business account that was suspended without cause (no abuse) with zero response from support.
- mike_d 6y ago
  > I expect to be told ... Which is exactly what Google does. At $dayjob we get warnings from Google all the time about users misbehaving. Remember you are hearing one side of the story here. Innocent people and the people worthy of banning for legitimate reasons will both proclaim innocence until the end of days.
  - koheripbal 6y ago
    It would be great to hear the other side of this story. But until we do, as a business owner, I still see this as a huge risk. ...because I've also had things banned from Google (not the entire gsuite account thank god), and support has no ability to help. So I'm not at all going to assume that they deserved this ban.
    - Gibbon1 6y ago

ameyv 6y ago

Hi, Thank you. Sending you email on bio you mentioned with details.