GeoNames Forum

Hi All

The google group for GeoNames has all of a sudden disappeared. I don't know when and if it will be restored. I don't even know whom to contact. I have reported the problem to the google group help group, but I don't have the impression that somebody from google is reading the messages over there.
As usual with google, support is absolutely lousy.

Marc

Update: The group is back.

I don't know why it has disappeared nor why it is back again, but I see that some spammers have uploaded porn spam to the pages and file upload section. I have removed the spam and disabled the pages/file-upload feature.

In the meantime I had removed most links to the group from the site. This experience has shown how dangerous the use of google-hosted services is. The data can disappear from one moment to the other and it is impossible to make backups. Support by google is inexistant and there is no possibility to get in touch and ask what has happend to ones data or even get it back.

Marc