Google says it's sorry for Monday's hours-long Gmail delays

Dual networking outage won't happen again, honest

Google apologized on Tuesday for a networking glitch that prevented emails from reaching many Gmail users' accounts for as much as two hours or even longer.…

via The Register - Networks

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