Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @02:49AM from the blissfully-sleeping-through-it dept.

Many readers noted an outage affecting Google's gmail service last night. Firmafest points to a statement from Google, according to which only a small subset of users were affected. According to reader CaptHarlock, mail itself remained accessible through IMAP clients, and the chat feature via external applications. jw3 asks "Of course, gmail is just one of the many providers of web-based e-mails. When I look around, almost everyone seems to be using them nowadays. So — what do you do? Do you trust that the site of your web-based e-mail provider will never go down? Do you make backups of all your e-mails?" (Some readers still seem to be unable to reach the site, too.)

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Re:Ma.gnolia! by pcdisorder · 2009-02-24 03:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The world almost ended today - watch my cartoon http://www.pcdisorder.com/2009/02/gmail-down-is-it-world-ending.html

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Re:Ma.gnolia! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-24 04:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nice cartoon. check out mine at http://badkitty.on.nimp.org/gmail-down-lol-wut