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by crazygringo 5185 days ago
Forgive my ignorance, what would uploading 30 icons have to do with being suspended?
3 comments

There are hacks out there that use Gmail as a sort of Dropbox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive These can get your account locked (https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... see #3).

I bet that uploading a bunch of files all at once could trigger that lock.

Ditto. I find it hard to believe that receiving 30 attachments in quick succession would trigger an IDS. People do that sort of thing all the time (try playing with "git send-email" sometime).

My guess is that it was more like 300, and cc'd to a bunch of external addresses such that it looked like spam.

So macspoofing: what did you have to do to get the account reenabled?

>I find it hard to believe that receiving 30 attachments in quick succession would trigger an IDS.

Believe it. It happened.

>what did you have to do to get the account reenabled?

Waited a few hours, and it was reenabled automagically.

I wish I knew.