posted on June 2, 2006 05:25:27 AM
It's important to resend invoices to AOL customers that were sent yesterday! Another reason people need to dump AOL.
AOL Suffers E-Mail Outage
Users trying to send and receive e-mail were preventing from doing so starting at around 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday. The service was back up about 4 p.m., a spokesman said.
By Barbara Darrow
CRN
Jun 1, 2006 05:13 PM
America Online's e-mail experienced a major glitch Thursday.
Users trying to send and receive e-mail were impacted starting at around 11 a.m. EDT. The service was back up about 4 p.m., a spokesman for the Dulles, Va. based Time Warner subsidiary said Thursday afternoon.
He attributed the problem to a software glitch. Users with aol.com and AIM.com addresses were affected as were netscape.com and compuserve.com users.
America Online says it has some 25 million e-mail users.
CRN learned of the outage from an AOL customer who was informed earlier today by the service provider that it had experienced a "massive internal system failure" and was asked to suspend bulk mailings immediately.
Problems started surfacing yesterday and became a major problem on Thursday, this source said.
"What this means for you is that e-mail delivered into AOL will likely not be received by your subscribers," the source said.
The AOL spokesman contested the use of the term "massive internal system failure" and instead referred to the root cause as a software glitch. "We have recovered. E-mail has stabilized. There is no current impact on users," he said.
posted on June 2, 2006 05:32:57 AM"The AOL spokesman contested the use of the term "massive internal system failure" and instead referred to the root cause as a software glitch. "We have recovered. E-mail has stabilized. There is no current impact on users," he said"
At least NOW we know where Baghdad Bob (aka: Minister Magoo) ended up after the fall of Baghdad!
posted on June 2, 2006 06:09:13 AM
I have AOL,I have no problem sending and receiving emails all day yesterday.
I am not a fan of AOL,but I have been with them for years,it is not the best but it is not the worst either.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on June 2, 2006 08:01:13 AM
I also had no problems yesterday or ever in the past sending or receiving emails. I always always receive all business emails with no problem.
But I do have to agree that I don't like AOL I have been with them since 1997 and just lately they have been displaying small problems, but email problems I don't have.
I only use AOL for mail I do all my other work with Mozilla so when AOL shuts down for no reason I'm still able to work and stay connected since I have cable hookup.
I like everything about there mail setup and I like the tool bar but they can keep everything else.........
toni
[ edited by stonecold613 on Jun 2, 2006 01:11 PM ]