Glitch delays e-mail from AOL, others

CNN.com - Glitch delays e-mail from AOL, others - Jun 2, 2006

Millions of AOL, Compuserve and Netscape customers around the world were experiencing delays in sending and receiving e-mails Thursday.A problem was discovered about 11 a.m. ET, according to Nicholas Graham of AOL Corporate Communications.

“It is not an outage, it is a delay,” he said. The company is queueing up millions of e-mails, and they will all flow through when the problem is solved, he said.

Have you considered how dependent we are on e-mail? I have. It seems as more of my colleagues get spam control at theis institutions, more of my e-mails are sent to the spam bin. Not that I send spam, but often when forwarding a good article or insight, it might fit with some of the “spam” rules, so off I go. However many don’t check their spam bins, so I am left following up with a …”did you get this…”

It has made me very aware of how dependent I am on e-mail.

2 June, 2006 |

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