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GMail down: yes, it does happen

November 8, 2004

This, kids, is why you should never use Beta software for anything critical. Not even if it's good ol' Google.

Gmail down screenshot

Thankfully, I have three separate backup email addresses, all on different domains. It is very unlikely that all of them will be down at the same time so I'm generally reachable at all times.

Update (16 November): To the scumbag who's trying to guess my GMail password and clicking the "forgot password" link so many times - give up, doofus! I used to be a sysadmin, so my passwords all look like "rj87iy90l" and I can actually remember them.

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Large webmail boxes are good only for one thing - collecting p0rn ;-)

I have seen this before and I am sure we will see it more, that said, there is NO web mail service where I have not seen a similar notice - why single out GMail?

Posted by Tarique Sani at November 9, 2004 9:23 AM

ok i never faced this problem but the service being beta its considerable... heck even Yahoo gives me wierd messages.. sometimes ... LOLOL

Posted by Pallavi at November 9, 2004 12:00 PM

Gmail is also so transparent. Depending on the mail, you get ads on the right. I was looking at the Shiok newsletter, and to the right there was ads on different kinds of cuisine.
Then I checked out some other emails as well.
Wierd I thought!

Posted by The one who gets tempted at November 10, 2004 10:09 PM

I took the gmail account because I kept getting invites. I only use it to invite other people to gmail.

Posted by Dr.P at November 12, 2004 10:56 PM

Gmail rocks turds dude. Kepone is a super ghost who drinks lots of beer and is super intelligent.

Rock on!

LS

Posted by Liquid Sky at February 5, 2005 2:13 PM

Um...
Is gmail down right now for any one? (11:15 CST)

Posted by HopeSeekr of xMule at February 27, 2005 10:44 PM

gmail is acting like yahoomail the past few days...today it is 349pm and i still havent been able to log on. it has been like this for 34+ hours.

thanks alot sergei!!! worthless piece of shi@@@@!!!

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