On November 5, several students reported that they cannot access their G Suite accounts. Google seems to disable all G Suite accounts in National Taiwan University (@g.ntu.edu.tw) due to spamming.<p>> "Your account is disabled due to spamming."
https://i.imgur.com/G2ZCkcE.jpg (in traditional Chinese)<p>Fortunately, most services in the university do not depend on G Suite. They depend on a unversity account (@ntu.edu.tw).
For anyone having trouble keeping up with the renames: "Google Apps" was renamed to "G Suite" in 2016, and was recently renamed again to "Google Workspace".
Why not simply disable sending email instead of shutting down the entire account? This heavy handed enforcement is what makes me want to get off Google productivity services.
Sounds like something Google and that University need to work out. I am curious about what happened that they needed to shutdown G Suite.<p>My understanding is Google is a bit less likely to go full ban and just lock you out with no recourse with G Suite than regular services.
I wonder if they haven’t turned off the ability to use third party mail clients and enforce 2FA. It’s possible their accounts were compromised and someone was sending mail as them without their knowledge.<p>If the university has compromised credentials and allows third party mail clients to access without 2FA/unique codes enabled, then they’ve opened themselves up to being spammers.
Good? They should have been doing this years ago. Look at how spammers operating with gmail addresses have screwed up Usenet, or as Google calls it, Groups.