GMail Is Slow or Broken For Everyone Today

by Chris Abraham on 01/03/2005 · 7 comments

Don’t worry, you’re not the only person who is suffering under slow or nonexistant access to your Gmail account today.


I have reports that people are actually reverting to their Hotmail accounts today the trouble is so insidious.

That said, if you need a free GMail account, please email me. Don’t pay for one. I think you can also just go to the site and join yourself now, too.

Probably just growing pains.

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{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Sia 14/03/2005 at 02:07

how to join gmail at the site when they have not open it to the public??

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2 MAQ 19/03/2005 at 18:05

go to google.com – therez a line of text advertising gmail and a link to free sign-up

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3 tom blumenthal 29/06/2005 at 06:54

Day two of broken Gmail begins. I had unfortunately given my gmail address out widely to business contacts. Good old American over-capitalization wins again. WHAT IS HAPPENING? Why is Mr. Abraham acting the apologist? This sucks.

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4 Chris Abraham 29/06/2005 at 09:35

Firstly, I would contact Google because I am having no problems with GMAIL — secondly, never put a freemail account on a business card. At the very least. get yourself tomblumenthal.com or blumenthal.com and then make your address tom@blumenthal.com and set it as an alias to your freemail account — you can usually do that for free from GoDaddy or DirectNic — I use cja@well.com because it reminds me of the old days of the Well — and then you can easily not be held hostage by what appears to you to be bad service.

Also, something that Google allows is a “Send As” address — I send as cja@well.com from Google all the time and have a .sig file that states as much.

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5 Dennis Raquet 13/03/2006 at 15:33

I can’t agree more with those complaining about the gmail performance. I had just typed a long email to one of my clients – as you can guess – things went south from there. My keystrokes were WAY ahead of the gmail, and to make matters worse I choose to spell check. BAD IDEA – it took at least 15 to 20 sec. to make any changes.
This is not acceptable – How does one find out what the real problem is? Is it broke? How do you get a gmail expert to verify the problem or provide a fix??

Dennis

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6 Humboldt Head 20/03/2006 at 12:23

Same here, Gmail is terribly slow, my 3rd day like this, anyone got any new news as far as what is going on?
Thanks,
Doc

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7 AM_AL 21/03/2006 at 14:38

OMG i can’t take this anymore.

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