gmail blown up

[Richard England]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:03 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:53 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>>     
>>> On 4/12/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:19 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Before you do what I did and battle with my email client (Evolution)
>>>>> Gmail is the source of the problem. It's been down since noon
>>>>> yesterday. Ric
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> What kind of problems?
>>>> My gmail/evo works just fine. (... and much as evo works just fine...)
>>>>         
>>> The POP3 access seems to be down. At least it was for me last night.
>>> Webmail worked fine though.
>>>
>>> /Mike
>>>       
>> Spoke too soon.
>> POP3 is not workie right now.
>>
>> Oh, well, when you get something for free (gmail) you shouldn't really
>> expect five-9s stability.
>>
>> - Gilboa
>>     
>
> Gilboa, I'm cleaning up on this end from the gmail Katrina experience.
> So far I have 1,199 messages just for Fedora List and climbing. It goes
> to show, the Universe will always remain at a steady state as something
> got fixed "Real Good" (tm) and now a year or so of sent messages are
> showing up in my in-box. I spewed, the Universe spewed back, clear back
> to 2005. BTW, What is five-9s? :) Ric
>
>   
IT use of 5-9's is   99.999% uptime or availability or reliability, or 
what ever hard to obtain artifact your management wants available "24-7".


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~~ Richard L. England

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